Vocabulary

• make ends meet: To manage to live on the money you have.
• hammer out: To reach an agreement or solution after a long or difficult discussion or negotiation.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• stand with: To support or defend someone or something.
• heading to: Going in a particular direction.
• take back: To say you no longer agree with an opinion you had
• speed up: To move more quickly
• walking out of: To move away from a situation
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• set to: To energetically begin to do, e.g. making a fire
• happen on: To find or discover by accident.
• fresh produce: Recently harvested fruits and vegetables offered for sale.
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• follow along: To agree to do or act the same as others
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• check out
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• grocery: Daily foods such as flour, sugar, and tinned foods
• campaign: To work in an organized, active way towards a goal
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• territory: Area of land defended by an animal
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• lean: To balance against or on something for support
• military: Army or armed forces
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• cast: People who appear in a play or movie
• aid: To help others and provide things
• democratic: (Of government) giving the people power, a vote
• rural: Concerning the country as opposed to the city
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• offensive: Causing displeasure or anger
• industrial: Concerning making things in factories
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• important: Having power or authority
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• tight: Showing anxiety or anger; tense
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• minister: An official who heads a government department
• point: An item to be discussed
• accuse: To claim that someone has done something wrong
• nuclear: Concerning or involving the center of an atom
• land: Region or country
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• area: Amount of measured space
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• bureau: Administrative unit of government
• cooperate: To work together with, to assist someone
• iron: Heavy metal device heated to smooth clothes
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• divert: To attract someone's attention from something
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• happen: To take place or occur
• fresh: Clean; not used or dirty
• visa: Authorization to enter a foreign country
• crux: Main point of an issue
• online: Connected to the internet
• jointly: In collaboration or cooperation; together
• ore: Rock containing valuable metal
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer