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English for Sales and Marketing/Choose the right synonym 2

Practice sales and marketing synonyms with this exercise. Using a wider vocabulary range makes your business English sound more natural and polished in any professional context.



📊 Did you know? Marketing edition
"Going viral" entered business English from biology — content that spreads rapidly online behaves like a virus, passed from person to person. Today it's standard marketing vocabulary: "Our campaign went viral" means it spread organically and reached a huge audience.
Above-the-line vs. below-the-line — these accounting-derived terms now describe marketing: above-the-line (ATL) means mass media advertising (TV, radio, billboards); below-the-line (BTL) means targeted promotions (email, events, coupons). The line between them has blurred significantly in the digital era.
"Pain point" is a marketing staple: it describes a specific problem a customer has that your product or service solves. "What are your customer's pain points?" is one of the first questions any marketing strategy session will ask.


READY TO PRACTICE? LET’S GO!

Choose the correct word(s) to make the two sentences have the same meaning.



1. You should change that color. = You should _________________ that color with another one.
2. This brand is known around the world. = This brand is world-_________________.
3. Will this brand be marketed all over the world? = Will this brand have a global _________________?
4. This particular campaign isn't doing so well. = This particular campaign is __________________ .
5. The market is __________________ with these types of products. = The market is already full of these types of products. ( = there isn't any room for another one)
6. We want to make sure that this new message doesn't __________________ what we've been saying before. = We don't want the new message to be at variance with the previous one.
7. Give me a couple of days to ___________________ this strategy. = Give me a couple of days to think about this strategy.
8. This type of mistake can have serious _____________________. = This type of mistake can have serious consequences.
9. This, for example, is the marketing plan from last year. = This, for _________________, is the marketing plan from last year.
10. We need to create a consistent brand _________________. = We need to create a corporate image that doesn't change.


▶ Keep practicing — more exercises for you: Marketing English 1
Marketing English 2
Marketing English 3
Marketing English 4
Marketing English 5
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Sales English 2
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