Vocabulary

• of use: Having practical value; useful or helpful.
• out of use: No longer used or functional; obsolete.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• stop from: To prevent someone from doing something; to hinder or obstruct.
• walk away: To leave a situation, especially a difficult or unpleasant one.
• switch off
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• account for: To explain the cause or reason for something
• set aside: To reject or throw away, e.g. an idea
• pick up the pieces: Begin to recover after a failure or disaster.
• face up to: To gather your courage to deal with (a problem)
• play out: To use up or exhaust
• watch this space: Keep watching or waiting for more information.
• absolutely: Completely; totally; very
• obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
• vital: Needed to support life; essential
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• initiative: Ability to come up with solutions by yourself
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• legacy: Literature, arts etc. from previous generations
• commercial: Radio or television advertisement
• contract: To become ill as a result of getting a disease
• conservative: (Of an estimate, price) set fairly low
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• diversity: Having a range of different races, ideas etc.
• private: Being away from others and quiet
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• extract: Essential ingredient of a natural thing
• account: An advantage
• pour: To fill a person's glass or cup with a drink
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• rigid: Stiff rather than flexible
• investment: Something purchased hoping its value will increase
• respond: To answer something or someone
• crunch: To crush something into pieces
• leave: To go away from; depart
• academy: School that specializes in certain subjects
• profit: Benefit from doing something
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• investigation: Search for information about something
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• bill: Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• scrap: To fight with someone
• fully: Completely or entirely
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• public: Owned by the government
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• boom: Very fast increase in growth or popularity
• thermal: Item of warm clothing for cold weather use
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• nursery: Place where trees and plants are grown and sold
• inclination: Feeling or desire to do something; a habit
• shiver: Act of shaking from fear or cold
• crucially: To an extremely important or necessary degree
• stoke: To add fuel or tend a fire to make it stronger
• structural: Concerning or caused by structure
• unfinished: Not yet ended; not complete; still being done