Vocabulary gap assessments

Choose general business English, a professional situation, or an exam task. Each short diagnostic identifies vocabulary decisions worth practicing.

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General business English

Start with a workplace-wide sample, or focus on one communication skill used across roles and industries.

Choose your profession

Each vocabulary gap assessment contains five authored questions tied to one professional field and one real work situation. It is a focused diagnostic signal, not a general fluency score.

Choose your exam

Each diagnostic is tied to a current exam task and tests five lexical decisions. It does not predict a score.

Vocabulary help for the exact exam taskTask vocabulary, natural word choice, paraphrasing, and audience fit · 4 questions each

Expression challenges

Already know what you want to work on? These drills focus on one expression. They are practice checks, not situation-based vocabulary gap assessments.

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Accommodate

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Achilles' Heel

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Acknowledge

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Actionable

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Advocate

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Agnostic

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Align

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Ambiguous

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Appease

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Appreciate

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Bake In

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Ballpark

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Bandwidth

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Bear Out

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Blocker

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Boil Down To

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Boondoggle

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Bottleneck

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Break Down

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Brittle

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Brown Noser

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Bullish

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Buy In

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Cadence

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Call Out

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Candid

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Carve Out

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Catch 22

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Caveat

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Champion

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Chip Away

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Circle Back

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Cognizant

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Compelling

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Conciliate

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Culture Fit

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Cushion

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David And Goliath

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De Risk

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Debbie Downer

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Discrepancy

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Dispassionate

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Dog And Pony Show

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Drink The Kool Aid

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Drive Home

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Drop The Ball

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Efficacy

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Equivocal

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Escalate

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Exposure

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Famous Last Words

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Flesh Out

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Fluff

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Fold In

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Foster

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Frankenstein Project System

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Friction

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Get Around To

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Give Someone Air Cover

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Going In A Different Direction

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Golden Child

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Goldilocks Solution

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Granular

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Groundhog Day Reference

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Guardrails

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Hail Mary

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Hand Over

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Hedge

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High Visibility

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Holistic

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Imperceptible

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In Good Hands

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In Hot Water

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Iron Out

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Keep Your Resume On File

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Lay Out

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Lead Time

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Lean Into

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Level The Playing Field

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Leverage

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Loop In

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Low Hanging Fruit

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Macgyver

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Manage Someone Out

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Map Out

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Middle Ground

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Mitigate

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Monday Morning Quarterback

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Move The Goalposts

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Move The Needle

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Narrative

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Navigate

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Non Negotiable

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North Star

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Not The Right Fit

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Nuanced

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Off The Top Of My Head

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Open Pandora's Box

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Optics

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Out Of Left Field

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Overhaul

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Overhead

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Pan Out

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Par For The Course

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Paradigm

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Performance Concerns

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Performance Improvement Plan Pip

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Pithy

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Pivot

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Pivotal

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Play Devil's Advocate

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Play It By Ear

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Play Out

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Pressure Test

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Provisional

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Punt On A Decision

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Push Back

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Ramp Up

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Reframe

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Resonate

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Revamp

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Role Is Being Eliminated

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Run Something By

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Sacred Cow

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Salient

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Sanguine

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Seamless

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Shake Out

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Shed Light On

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Silver Bullet

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Smoke And Mirrors

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Socialize

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Spearhead

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Spell Out

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Spurious

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Stakeholder

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Step Up To The Plate

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Streamline

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Strike A Chord

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Substantiate

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Sunset

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Surface

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Surge

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Synthesize

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Table

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Take A Mulligan

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Tee Up A Discussion

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Tentative

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Throughput

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Touch Base

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Touch On

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Trade Off

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Trajectory

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Triangulate

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Trojan Horse

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Ubiquitous

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Unblock

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Under The Wire

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Unpack

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Upside

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Walk Back

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Walk Through

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Weigh In

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Wiggle Room

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Work Out

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Yes Man

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