Most recent Vocabulary exercises

Do you use a lot of business jargon in your meetings with native speakers of English? Maybe you shouldn't! In this test, we look at the topic of business jargon — and why some people hate it. 

Are you surfing our site from home this week? If you are, we hope you're enjoying your break from work. In this exercise, we look at everyday expressions around the topic of water. We start with some useful idioms.

We've prepared a short online quiz based on Tricky Translations, a regular section in Business Spotlight magazine. This section focuses on words that are often difficult to translate. How well can you translate between German and English?

Meetings can test your communication skills. In this test, we focus on idioms that are used to describe effective and ineffective communication.

Work is all about employment — and employers and employees. Our test looks at how to form words from the base word employ. Can you type the correct form in the box to complete our statements?

When disaster strikes, it's often hard to find the right words. When the disaster is in the form of an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale in Haiti, it's almost impossible.

Learn a Latin lesson from Monty Python and some Latin phrases from our exercise! You can use many of them in business situations. 

If you've decided that 2010 is the year you start a career in an English-speaking country, you will need to understand the vocabulary of recruitment. Our test focuses on the language you will need to talk about this topic.

As the global financial crisis worsens, the reports get more dramatic. Would you be able to use the right kind of language to describe what's happening now? Take our short test to find out.