Scientific and Business Vocabulary Quiz

Scientific/Technical Vocabulary

• Anatomy: The study of the structure of living things.
• Catalyst: A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction.
• Compensate: To make up for something, often with money for damage.
• Compress: To apply pressure to reduce volume or space.
• Condense: To make something more concentrated or concise.
• Correlate: To have a mutual relationship or connection.
• Deduce: To conclude from facts or evidence.
• Deviate: To depart from a norm or established path.
• Disperse: To distribute widely over an area.
• Disseminate: To spread information widely.
• Distort: To twist out of shape or misrepresent.
• Embark: To begin a course of action or journey.
• Exacerbate: To worsen a situation.
• Fluctuate: To vary irregularly, rising and falling unpredictably.
• Hypothesis: A proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

Business and Economic Vocabulary

• Allocate: To distribute resources or tasks for a purpose.
• Amortize: To reduce a debt by making regular payments.
• Arrears: Money owed and past due.
• Benchmark: A standard or point of reference.
• Bureaucracy: A system with many rules and procedures.
• Collateral: Something pledged as security for a loan.
• Commodity: A raw material or agricultural product bought and sold.
• Consolidate: To combine into a single whole.
• Deplete: To use up resources or supplies.
• Derivative: Something based on another source.
• Divest: To sell assets, usually to improve finances.
• Entrepreneur: A person who starts and manages a business.
• Expenditure: The act of spending money.
• Franchise: The right to market a company's goods or services.