Vocabulary

• from home: Working or operating from one's residence.
• make ends meet: To manage to live on the money you have.
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• piping hot: Extremely hot; very hot.
• at that time: During a specific point in the past.
• get back to: To get in contact with someone again
• in business: Actively operating as a commercial enterprise.
• on the move: Traveling or going from place to place.
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• extremely: In a way that is much more than usual or expected
• pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• financial: Involving money
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• private: Being away from others and quiet
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• due: When something is required or expected
• relief: Aid given to people in need as after war/disaster
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• organize: To arrange and plan things, e.g. a party
• culture: Beliefs and customs of a particular group
• increasingly: More and more; in greater degree or amount
• journalist: Writer of news reports for newspapers etc.
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• sector: Part that a place is divided into
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• alternate: To follow one thing after another repeatedly
• great: Very good; better than before
• pack: Bag carried on the back of donkey, etc.
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• business: A company formed for making profit
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• bustle: To move energetically or busily
• afloat: Remaining on top of a liquid; floating
• livelihood: Way someone earns money to live
• pre: A prefix meaning 'before'
• lifeline: Rope or cord used to attach a person to a boat
• shah: Title given to the monarch of Iran