Vocabulary

• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• on the rise: Increasing; becoming more popular or common.
• in trouble: Experiencing difficulties, problems, or legal issues.
• going on: To continue doing something
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• in jail: Imprisoned; confined in a jail or prison.
• play on: To exploit or take advantage of something, such as someone's emotions or weaknesses.
• have to: Must do
• in addition to: Besides; as well as
• against you: In opposition to you.
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• In the event of: If something happens, especially something undesirable
• set up
• in advance: Ahead of time; before something happens
• back at you: An informal way to return a greeting or compliment.
• sort through: To examine a collection of things in order to organize them, find something specific, or discard unwanted items.
• head over heels: Deeply and completely in love.
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• red flag: A warning sign or signal of danger or a problem.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
• next to: Being located along side another
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• lose money: To suffer a financial loss; to not make a profit.
• pull off: To manage to succeed
• break through: To move quickly through (wall, etc.) using force
• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• stereotype: False categorization of people as all the same
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• fraud: Use of dishonest ways to take something valuable
• mimic: Someone who tries to act like another person
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• intricate: Very detailed or difficult to untangle
• financial: Involving money
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
• suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
• appeal: Ability to attract interest, attention, or desire
• tactic: One of the ways you attempt to achieve a strategy
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• pause: To stop doing for a while before continuing
• stock: Animals such as cattle kept for breeding
• stir: To arouse (attention or interest)
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• evaluate: To form an idea to judge something carefully
• synonymous: Having the same meaning as another word
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• scam: A trick to fool other people to get their money
• patron: Person buying products or services of a business
• savvy: Wise; Not easily fooled; Street smart
• emergency: Sudden event needing an immediate action
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• scary: Causing fear; frightening
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• mainstream: Prevailing current of thought
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• representative: Typical example of a particular category
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• verify: To prove that something is right, accurate or true
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• citizen: Person who belongs to and has rights in a country
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• pose: To be or exist as (a problem, threat etc.)
• collectively: By working together as a group
• urgency: Quality of requiring action
• service: Work that a person does to assist others
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• embarrassment: Shame you feel when you did something wrong
• jail: Place to hold criminals being punished for a crime
• unknown: Not being known or famous
• heighten: To increase the degree or intensity of something
• columnist: Person writing articles in a newspaper or magazine
• spout: To speak too quickly without thinking first
• online: Connected to the internet
• lexicon: All the words used in a particular language
• generative: Having the ability to produce or originate
• gen: (UK old-fashioned, informal) Information about a particular subject
• grandchild: Your son or daughter's child