Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• move to: To change the place where you live or work.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• next to: Being located along side another
• at the end of the day: Ultimately; when everything else is considered.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• take over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• spend money: To use money to buy or pay for something.
• pay down: To reduce the amount of money needing to be paid
• at most: Not more than; a maximum of.
• at least: As a minimum
• come down to: To become in the end a matter of
• as a whole: Considering everything together; in general.
• pay back: To return money or a favor
• ridiculous: Funny or foolish; deserving to be laughed at
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• consumption: The act of buying and using products
• opinion: Court judge's statement why a decision was made
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• 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
• recession: Act of moving backward gradually
• shrink: To become smaller
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• ordinary: Normal or usual
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• huge: Very very large
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• innovative: Having or using new methods or ideas
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• investment: Something purchased hoping its value will increase
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• yield: To bend or break because of a strong force
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• wage: Money paid to a worker for the hours they worked
• leave: To go away from; depart
• tariff: List of fixed prices at hotel
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• bubble: A small ball of air inside of a liquid
• unemployment: Number of people without jobs in a country
• bankrupt: Unable to pay debts
• median: Being in the middle or average
• ridiculously: Extremely; so much so that people might laugh
• semiconductor: Silicon chip used in computers
• injection: Act of adding or putting in; adding to
• elasticity: Ability to stretch and return to original shape
• deflationary: Marked by decreasing consumer prices