Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• regardless of
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• per year: For each year; annually.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• break into: To start suddenly (crying, panicking, etc.)
• by itself: Alone; without help or assistance.
• stack up: To compare with something else; measure up.
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• genuinely: In a real, actual, not false or artificial way
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• bias: Preference to believe things even if incorrect
• impressive: Causing admiration or respect; grand or expensive
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• approximately: Around; nearly; almost; about (a number)
• academic: Concerning education, schools, universities, etc.
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
• status: Position or rank relative to others in a society
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• dramatically: In a sudden or extreme manner
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
• profile: To write a short description of a person or group
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• cram: To add more to something that is already full
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• honor: To fulfill an agreement
• creep: To move quietly so as not to be seen
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• specialty: Skill or a dish that a person, business is good at
• metric: Based on the meter as a standard of measurement
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• badge: Material with a pin to show membership in a group
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• disappointment: Feeling or state of not being satisfied
• attendance: Number of people present at a place or event
• international: Of or relating to several countries
• strong: (Of tea or beer) dark or thick
• story: One of many floors or levels in a building
• tier: One of the rising rows of seats, e.g. in a stadium
• residency: Training for a junior doctor in hospital
• percentile: A range of scores allotted to parts of one hundred