You got 4 correct out of 10.
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1. I had to negotiate the best _________ for the guided tour of the rainforest. There was no fixed price.
fee
rate
coupon
commission
2. I would like to buy some euros for my trip to Paris. What is your ________ percentage?
transfer
cashback
coupon
commission
3. At restaurants in Portugal, if you eat the bread from the basket on your table, there will be an automatic _________ on your bill.
rate
commission
charge
price
4. I wasn't impressed with the hotel. They charged an extra ___________ for a wake-up call.
fee
charge
cutback
rate
5. What is a synonym of "price"?
charge
cashback
cutback
cost
6. I sent a money ___________ to my parents back home in Guatemala.
transfer
cost
fee
charge
7. Because of the recession, salaries have been _________ indefinitely.
transferred
charged
cut
cutback
8. Companies have had to make ___________ in their spending in order to return to profitability.
cashbacks
charges
cutbacks
transfers
9. Before I go grocery shopping, I always check the store flyer for __________ in order to save money.
charges
fees
cashbacks
coupons
10. Some credit cards will offer __________ as an incentive to spend more.
cashback
cutbacks
commissions
fees
Another "Kafkaian Image"-Translated from Pavel Campeanu
The predilection towards the tragic comedy relies in the contrast between lucid rationality and the scarcity of action. The artist sees the monstrosity of the world but not the possibility to change it. He is strong enough not to adapt to it, but too weak to change in resonance with his human demands. The situation is at the same time tragic and comic too, as the artist is dominated on the plane of reality by what he tends to determine on the ideal one. It is because of that that he feels the need to detach himself from his own condition by distancing himself and to reconsider it with a relentless lucidity. Kafka was born in a period when the last remains of the political credibility of the Jew community living in Böhmen were destroyed as a social unity in the course of the chauvinistic chase. The respect for oneself disappeared entirely, too. There was a real anti-Semitic feeling even among the Jewish people. The absurdity in Kafka’s short-prose writing marks its...
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