Vocabulary

• sell off: To sell something quickly, usually because you need the money or because you want to stop being involved with it.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• have to: Must do
• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• left and right: In both the left and right directions.
• drill down: To examine something in detail; to analyze deeply.
• in a hurry: Acting or moving with great haste; rushed.
• hit with: To strike someone or something using an object.
• at the moment: At this time; now
• shift in: A change or alteration in something.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• in focus: State in which you see something sharp and clearly
• move on: To decide to change or go to a different place
• come up: To come closer to someone; approach
• at the end of the day: Ultimately; when everything else is considered.
• as a result of: Because of something; owing to.
• in terms of
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• concept: Abstract idea of something or how it works
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
• spare: To make (money or time) available for
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• dump: To end a romantic relationship
• financial: Involving money
• debt: Sum of money owed to someone that is not yet paid
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• recession: Act of moving backward gradually
• currency: Widespread acceptance
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• huge: Very very large
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• stock: Animals such as cattle kept for breeding
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• asset: Thing that has value to you
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• magnificent: Splendid; brilliant; extremely good
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• induce: To make someone do something; create an outcome
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• retreat: Act of a force moving back from a winning enemy
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• tariff: List of fixed prices at hotel
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• uncertainty: Feeling of not really knowing what will happen
• storm: To act violently or angrily
• exceptional: Being extremely and unusually good
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• stimulus: Something that causes a change
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• portfolio: A list of the financial assets held by someone
• sauce: Food made from cooked fruit, e.g. apples or mangos
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• traction: Force causing moving thing to stick, e.g. on roads
• part: Division of a book
• percentage: Part of a whole divided into hundredths
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• equity: Condition of people being treated the same
• heel: Back or end part of something
• liberation: Act of setting someone or something free
• rattle: To make a series of sharp noises by shaking
• digit: Person's finger or toe
• institutional: Being related or similar to an institution
• changer: A person who changes something