Vocabulary

• going on: To continue doing something
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• in real life: In the physical world; not online or in a fictional setting.
• phrase: Common expression or saying
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• poverty: State of being poor
• specifically: As regards a particular thing; closely related to
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• conduct: Your behavior
• quarantine: To isolate ill people to prevent disease spreading
• shrink: To become smaller
• afford: To make available, to provide
• paralysis: Inability to move or feel all or part of the body
• compensate: To give (money) to as a form of correcting a loss
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• literal: Being the basic exact meaning of a word/expression
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• irrational: Not sensible or reasonable; illogical
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• diet: To eat special or less food, as to lose weight
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• boredom: Feeling of being uninterested or unexcited
• trend: Current style or fashion
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• coronavirus: Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• revenge: Getting back at someone by hurting them back
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• boutique: Small fashionable shop
• surgeon: A doctor who performs surgery
• verb: Word that expresses an action or state
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• cheat: To be unfaithful to (your wife, boyfriend etc.)
• abject: Very great (fear, poverty, loneliness etc.)
• flash: To appear suddenly and briefly
• spree: Short intense period of shopping/killing etc.
• bomb: To attack with explosives
• tinder: Material for starting a fire
• online: Connected to the internet
• rationality: Being able to think clearly
• lien: Law charge on property to satisfy a debt or duty