Vocabulary

• for sale: (object) that people can buy
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• alternative: Something different you can choose
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• urge: A strong desire for something
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• firm: Company that sells goods or services
• domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
• contract: To become ill as a result of getting a disease
• pile: Large amount of something
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• withstand: To remain unaffected by something or someone
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• respond: To answer something or someone
• pride: Sense of your own importance and worth
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• offensive: Causing displeasure or anger
• wage: Money paid to a worker for the hours they worked
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• economic: Concerning trade, industry, and money
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• host: Mass; a great number
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• business: A company formed for making profit
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• onslaught: Violent attack; a sudden rush of something
• defiant: Refusing to obey (rules, parent); resistant
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• limbo: An uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement
• southeast: Location in the southeastern part of an area
• roadside: Edge of a way or road or path