Vocabulary

• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• tough questions: Difficult or challenging questions that require careful consideration and honest answers.
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• entrepreneur: Businessperson who develops new businesses
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• debate: General public discussion of a topic
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
• express: To send something by fast mail
• substance: Essence of; most basic or central qualities
• gut: To destroy the inside of a building , e.g. by fire
• reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
• personality: Way someone is or reacts to life or other people
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• venture: (Business) activity involving calculated risks
• validation: Act of finding or testing the truth of something
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• authenticity: Quality of being genuine, not a fake or copy
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• immerse: To put something in liquid until it is covered
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• fortune: What might happen to you in the future
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• feedback: A response or opinion, about a service, etc.
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• stagnant: Unmoving; not growing, as of an economy
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• jaw: One of the two bones of the face where teeth grow
• great: Very good; better than before
• intellectually: In a manner involving reasoning or complex ideas
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• person: Man, woman or child
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• serial: Story that is told is several parts on TV or radio
• analyst: Someone who is skilled at studying details of data
• constrain: To make someone do something by strong persuasion
• silicon: Mineral used in making steel and computer parts
• bubbly: Full of bubbles, like a soda
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer