Vocabulary

• lay off: To stop troubling or hitting someone
• catch up: To become equal with another person
• request for: A formal application or appeal for something.
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• giant: Tall, large, and powerful human-like creatures
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• offset: To compensate for or counterbalance the effect of
• lay: Amateur; not being a trained priest
• workforce: The total number of working people
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
• announce: To make a public statement about a plan, decision
• link: Any one of the rings that are part of a chain
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• theoretical: Concerning the unproved aspects of a subject
• speculative: Not based on sure knowledge; based on intuition
• datum: Item of factual information
• report: Account of the necessary facts and information
• heavily: In a slow, loud manner
• need: To be unable to manage without something; require
• globally: Throughout the world
• cloud: To confuse the mind/judgment of a person
• run: To depart or travel according to a schedule
• heavy: Greater in amount, degree, or severity than usual
• restructure: To change or organize something in a different way