Vocabulary

• grocery: Daily foods such as flour, sugar, and tinned foods
• initiative: Ability to come up with solutions by yourself
• aggressive: Using energy and determination to achieve a goal
• poverty: State of being poor
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• implement: To start to do something you plan to do
• mortgage: Long-term loan from a bank for buying property
• notion: Sudden idea or desire to do something
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• consent: To agree or give approval to do something
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
• adequate: Enough; good enough for what is needed
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• adapt: To change something for a different function
• sympathy: Feeling for other people when they are in trouble
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• radical: Person who believes in extreme political change
• candidate: Politician who is running for public office
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• factor: Something that influences a result
• glance: Quick or temporary look at
• characteristic: Typical or distinctive
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• emphasis: Special attention, importance, or force
• objective: Being real, rather than simply being an idea
• agriculture: The science of farming
• persuade: To try to make someone to do, believe something
• kidney: Body organ that cleans blood, producing urine
• vehicle: Machine (such as a car) used to carry things
• stream: To send a constant flow of data over the internet
• dialect: Way of speaking used by a group or in a region
• tidy: With things in their proper place; not messy
• hearty: (Of emotions) warm and sincere
• implication: Possible effects, results from an action or event
• behalf: As a representative of someone or a group.
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• shrug: To raise the shoulders to show you don't care
• crocodile: Large meat-eating reptile that can swim
• sock: Covering for your feet, worn under shoes
• chap: To cause the skin, lips to roughen or crack
• freeway: Highway that can be used without paying a toll
• jockey: To compete for position, success or space
• reader: Easy and simple book to teach people to read