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Advanced Vocabulary for TOEFL - Professional Life and Occupations

Here you will learn some English words about professional life and occupations, such as "convene", "artisan", "mason", etc. that are needed for the TOEFL exam.

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Advanced Words Needed for TOEFL

to stop a meeting, trial, or game in order to resume it sometime later

Ex: The conference adjourned for lunch and would reconvene in an hour .
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to meet or bring together a group of people for an official meeting

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arduous
[Adjective]

requiring a lot of mental effort and hard work

Ex: The research became arduous job .
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grueling
[Adjective]

extremely tiring and demanding strenuous effort and perseverance

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hectic
[Adjective]

extremely busy and chaotic

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intermittent
[Adjective]

repeatedly starting and stopping, in short, irregular intervals

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menial
[Adjective]

(of work) not requiring special skills, often considered unimportant and poorly paid

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painstaking
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requiring a lot of effort and time

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solitary
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performed alone, without the involvement or companionship of others

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artisan
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a skilled craftsperson who creates objects partly or entirely by hand

Ex: The market artisans selling handmade soaps .
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consul
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an official appointed by a government to represent that government in a foreign city

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‌a person, especially an official, whose role or job is to kill convicted people as a means of punishment

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a person whose profession is to kill certain types of animals or insects that are not wanted in a place

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machinist
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someone who operates a machine, especially an industrial one

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mortician
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someone who prepares dead bodies for burial or cremation and arranges funerals as their job

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quorum
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the minimum number of people that must be present for a meeting to officially begin or for decisions to be made

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a person who works compulsively and finds it hard to stop working to do other things

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