600 Essential Words for the TOEIC

Table of Contents

What the Book Is About v
How to Use This Book v
Strategies to Improve Your Vocabulary
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Lessons .1-5 General Business
1. Contracts 1
2. Marketing 4
3. Warranties 7
4. Business Planning 10
5. Conferences 13

Word Review #1 16

Lessons 6-10 Office Issues 18
6. Computers 21
7. Office Technology 24
8. Office Procedures 27
9. Electronics 30
10. Correspondence
33
Word Review #2
35
Lessons 11-15 Personnel 38
11. Job Advertising and Recruiting 41
12. Applying and Interviewing 44
13. Hiring and Training 47
14. Salaries and Benefits
15. Promotions, Pensions, and Awards 50

Word Review #3 52
55
Lessons 16-20 Purchasing 58
16. Shopping 61
17. Ordering Supplies 64
18. Shipping
19. Invoices 67
20. Inventory
69
Word Review #4 72
75
Lessons 21-25 Financing and Budgeting 78
21. Banking 81
22. Accounting
23. Investments
24. Taxes
25. Financial Statements

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Word Review #5 84

Lessons 26-30 Management Issues 86
26. Property and Departments 89
27. Board Meetings and Committees 92
28. Quality Control 95
29. Product Development 98
30. Renting and Leasing
101
Word Review #6
103
Lessons 31-35 Restaurants and Events 106
31. Selecting a Restaurant 109
32. Eating Out 112
33. Ordering Lunch 115
34. Cooking as a Career
35. Events 118

Word Review #7 120
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Lessons 36-40 Travel
36. General Travel 126
37. Airlines 129
38. Trains 132
39. Hotels
40. Car Rentals 135

Word Review #8 137
140
Lessons 41-45 Entertainment 143
41. Movies 146
42. Theater 149
43. Music
44. Museums 152
45. Media
154
Word Review #9 157
160
Lessons 46-50 Health 163
46. Doctor's Office 166
47. Dentist's Office
48. Health Insurance 169
49. Hospitals
50. Pharmacy 171
175
Word Review #10

Answer Key
Word Index

What

The TOEle (Test of English for International Communication) test measures the English proficiency of people working
in international business or planning to use English to communicate with others~ Although the test does not C'nL::i""!1'I""~lhJ
test specialized vocabulary, the items on the exam are in specialized contexts.

This book will provide you with a basis to understand these specialized contexts that are often used on the TOEle test.
Each chapter covers a particular context that has appeared on the TOEle test. The new words taught in each chapter
are not specialized words. These words are more what is called general vocabulary. They can be used in many contexts.

However, these new words are used in a specialized context. Understanding these contexts and the words used in
these contexts will help you improve your score on the TOEle exam.

How to Use Book

This book could also be titled 50 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary. There are 50 lessons. Every day, you can study
one lesson. Every day you can learn 12 new words. In 50 days, you can learn 600 new words-words that will help
you understand English better. And the better you understand English, the higher your TOEIC score will be.

You can sit down and in 30 minutes finish a lesson. But that is not the best way. To learn a new word, you must use it
over and over. Try to spread your studying out over the whole day. Do a little bit whenever you have some free time.
The 12 new words are used over and over and over in this lesson. Studying these words throughout the day will help
you learn them and never forget them.

Start in the morning and look over the 12 new words and their definitions. Repeat them out loud. During the morning,
read over the conversations. If you can, say the conversations out loud. The more ways you use a word (listening,
speaking, reading, and writing), the better the chance you will remember it.

In the afternoon, do the exercises. In the evening, do the very last exercise. The last exercise is like a mini-test. It will
tell you if you completely understood the meaning of the word and how to use it in a sentence.

Every day, do another lesson. At the end of the week, do the Word Review. I am sure you will answer every question
correctly.

Most of the new words you learn in one lesson will be used again in another lesson. We recycle words just as we recycle
paper. If you forget a meaning of a word, look up the word in the Word Index at the back of the book. That will tell you in
which lesson you can find a definition and the pronunciation.

Strategies to Improve Your

The English language consists of more than 250,000 words, far more than most other languages-far more than we
can include in this book. Here are some strategies that will help you remember words that you come across either in
this book or in English books or magazines.

To learn a new word, of course, you first have to run across it. Therefore, you must read in English as much as you
can. The best way to improve your vocabulary is to read routinely. The more you read, the more words you will
encounter. The more words you run across, the more you will learn.

Once you have gotten into the habit of reading, you can systematically build your vocabulary by doing five things:

1. Analyze word parts.
2. Recognize grammatical forms.
3. Recognize word families.
4. Make your own personal dictionary.
5. Keep a daily reading log.

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My Personal Dictionary

New word Original sentence

Definition

My sentence

Word forms in sentences

Word families in sentences