Vocabulary

• per year: For each year; annually.
• ramp up: To increase the level or amount of something sharply.
• get up to: To do something slightly naughty
• keeping up: To understand what someone is saying
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• demand on: A strong need or requirement that places a burden or strain.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• have on: To be wearing something.
• in color: Displayed or produced using all colors; not black and white.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• on the order of: Approximately; about a certain amount or number.
• in the face of: When confronted with something difficult or challenging.
• federal funding: Financial assistance provided by the federal government to support various projects, programs, or organizations.
• next to: Being located along side another
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• go ahead: To start an activity; start doing, working etc.
• point out: To make others aware of an idea
• at least: As a minimum
• looking out: To take care and watch something carefully
• back out: To say you will now not do something you promised
• build out: To expand or develop something, such as a business or system.
• up and running: Fully operational; functioning correctly.
• on the spot: Immediately; at that location.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• material: Cloth; fabric
• tremendous: Very good or very impressive
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• native: Someone from or born in a specific country
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• concentrate: To cause to be present in large amount or number
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• facility: Piece of equipment or buildings with a special use
• plain: Obvious; clearly so, true
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• ramp: Path that increases in height as you walk up it
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• mineral: Substance naturally formed in the ground
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• workforce: The total number of working people
• stockpile: Large supply of something kept for future use
• basin: A sink; a place in a bathroom to wash your face
• mining: To place a bomb in the ground or the sea
• powder: Dry material made up of small powder-like pieces
• enrich: To make someone or something better
• provision: Clause in a legal document
• datum: Item of factual information
• conversion: Switch from one thing (e.g. religion) to another
• quadruple: To make or become four times bigger in number
• creek: Water channel that is smaller than a river
• dependence: Relying on someone for (e.g. financial) support
• oxide: Compound from combining oxygen with a chemical
• ore: Rock containing valuable metal
• reactor: Device to control nuclear energy as a power source
• restart: To begin working again after it has stopped