A comprehensive general business English vocabulary exercise. The questions cover a mix of everyday workplace language, management terminology, and the expressions that make professional communication sound natural.
📚 Key vocabulary click-through rate (CTR) — the percentage of people who click on a link or advertisement after seeing it funnel — a model representing the stages a potential customer goes through, from awareness to purchase content marketing — a strategy focused on creating and distributing valuable content to attract and retain a defined audience KPI (key performance indicator) — a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a company is achieving key business objectives market share — the portion of total sales in a market captured by a particular company or product customer retention — a company's ability to keep its existing customers over a specified period of time product lifecycle — the progression of a product through introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages demographic — statistical data relating to a population, such as age, gender, income, and education level psychographic — characteristics relating to consumers' attitudes, interests, values, and lifestyle choices upselling — encouraging a customer to purchase a more expensive or upgraded version of the product they are considering
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. Bill's company has broken its four-quarter streak of declining _____________________.
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2. Revenue from license sales _____________________ 5% during the second quarter of 2024.
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3. Because of good business decisions, our company is growing faster than _____________________.
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4. We expect ____________________ growth during the next couple of quarters.
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5. The CEO announced that the company was taking a new __________________.
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6. The 90's stock market __________________ created scores of (= many) dot-com millionaires.
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7. A __________________ company is one that isn't going to last very long. It's here one day and gone the next.
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8. The company spokesperson __________________ to answer any questions.
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9. We're a little worried. One of our major __________________ is growing at a rapid rate.
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10. Bill was trying to come up with a scheme to steal money from the company, but his boss __________________ to this scheme and fired him.
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