Vocabulary

• set up
• catch up: To become equal with another person
• have to: Must do
• push out: To prevent others from competing, e.g. in business
• at risk: In danger; likely to be harmed
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• throw away: To fail to take advantage of a good chance
• of sorts: Of a kind, but not a very good one.
• got to: To arrive at some place
• put together: To build or assemble something small, e.g. a toy
• come up with: To think of an idea or solution; produce
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• deal with
• publicly traded: Having shares that are traded on a stock exchange.
• at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• alternative: Something different you can choose
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• intuitive: Able to understand by feeling rather than fact
• acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
• inspiration: Force making you feel you can do things, succeed
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• contract: To become ill as a result of getting a disease
• military: Army or armed forces
• mechanism: Part of a machine that performs a certain function
• competition: Fighting against others to win something
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• virtual: Existing only on the internet or on a computer
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• huge: Very very large
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• value: Importance you attach to something
• coordinate: To match styles or colors that go well together
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• undermine: To weaken or destroy secretly and usually slowly
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• consolidation: Act of combining into an integral whole
• hone: To improve or perfect (abilities or skills)
• autonomous: Able to control or decide matters by itself
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• command: To be able to see far from a certain location
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• profit: Benefit from doing something
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• defense: Argument in support of something
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• carve: To cut a piece of cooked meat into thin slices
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• fill: To make something full
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• enthusiast: A person having a strong liking for something
• differentiate: To see or show how things are not the same
• startup: A company just starting its operations
• rift: Opening made by splitting; a major disagreement
• tenure: Land or buildings one owns
• interface: Place where things come together to communicate
• tumultuous: Chaotic
• polarize: To divide opinions into two extremes
• procurement: Act of getting possession of something
• unmanned: Lacking a crew
• lattice: Openwork structure of crossed strips of wood, etc.
• undergone: To experience or endure something (bad)
• oust: To eject from a position or place; force out