Vocabulary

• make with: To offer or provide something, often quickly or unexpectedly.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• road ahead: The future; what is to come.
• on the table: Located on the surface of a table.
• signing on: To hire someone for a specific job or activity
• of theirs: Belonging to them; their possession or property.
• on the other side of: Located across something from a given point.
• in terms of
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• unprecedented: Not having happened before, or to such a degree
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• strike: To hit something
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• shift: To change in position or direction
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• leverage: An advantage which gives you influence or power
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• vice: used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• diminish: To make something smaller or less important
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• diplomatic: Concerning formal relationships between countries
• loop: A circle or curved shape, as when you tie a lace
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• assessment: Conclusion, opinion formed after due consideration
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• relieve: To make less boring by making some change
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• reception: Front desk area of an organization or building
• point: An item to be discussed
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• negotiate: To have a formal discussion to reach an agreement
• cease: To come or bring to an end; stop continuing
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• fishy: Strange; suspicious; probably untrue
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• jeopardize: To pose a threat to; present a danger to
• keep: Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
• upper: Drug that improves mood or increases energy
• quickly: Without taking a lot of time; fast
• competency: Ability to do in a fully satisfactory way
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• analyst: Someone who is skilled at studying details of data
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• true: Agreeing with the facts; not false; real or actual
• adamant: Determined not to change your opinion
• surprise: To do something that another person didn't expect
• blockade: To block or impede the movement of people, objects
• memo: Brief note or message left for another person
• unclear: Not easy to understand; not obvious
• whew: Sound people make when they are relieved