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.
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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.
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2. This brand is known around the world. = This brand is world-_________________.
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3. Will this brand be marketed all over the world? = Will this brand have a global _________________?
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4. This particular campaign isn't doing so well. = This particular campaign is __________________ .
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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)
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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.
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7. Give me a couple of days to ___________________ this strategy. = Give me a couple of days to think about this strategy.
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8. This type of mistake can have serious _____________________. = This type of mistake can have serious consequences.
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9. This, for example, is the marketing plan from last year. = This, for _________________, is the marketing plan from last year.
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10. We need to create a consistent brand _________________. = We need to create a corporate image that doesn't change.
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