A broad business English vocabulary exercise with a focus on the language of workplace communication — including terms used in presentations, negotiations, and team discussions.
📚 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. When you're "bouncing ideas off each other", you're __________________________.
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2. Lisa, the marketing rep, and I have been playing __________________________ this whole week. (We've been trying to reach each other, but we keep getting each other's voice mail.)
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3. What's "voice mail"?
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4. I think David should do the presentation. Database architecture is his __________________________.
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5. Your report is a little short. I think you have to __________________________ a little more.
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6. Our meetings are always quite informal, but we get __________________________.
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7. Where can I get a pen?
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8. What's a binder?
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9. I've always wanted to ___________________ a career in oceanography.
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10. No, I'm not ___________________ with that service. ( = I haven't heard about that service)
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