Vocabulary

• at the moment: At this time; now
• take it away: To remove something.
• the bottom line: The most important thing; the essential point.
• tap on: To touch someone or something gently and usually repeatedly, often to attract attention.
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• go from strength to strength: Make continuous progress and become stronger or more successful.
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• across the board: Broad in scope or content
• come up with: To think of an idea or solution; produce
• fatigue: Breaking due to being moved or bent many times
• absolutely: Completely; totally; very
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• gross: 144 of something; twelve dozen of something
• unprecedented: Not having happened before, or to such a degree
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• strength: Condition of being strong
• strike: To hit something
• category: Groups of things that are similar in some way
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
• component: One of the parts that something is made up of
• debt: Sum of money owed to someone that is not yet paid
• leverage: An advantage which gives you influence or power
• conference: Series of lectures held as an event
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• brew: A beer; a drink of beer
• facility: Piece of equipment or buildings with a special use
• premium: Having a higher than normal quality
• optimistic: Tending to believe the future will be good
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• expectation: Belief or hope that something is going to happen
• temporary: Continuing for a limited time; not permanent
• consecutive: Following one after the other in order
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• mitigate: To make less severe or serious
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• tariff: List of fixed prices at hotel
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• quarter: 25 cents
• disruption: When a disturbance stops an activity in progress
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• inventory: List of items stored at a place
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• definitive: Clear and leaving no further question
• outlook: General feeling or attitude about something
• offset: To compensate for or counterbalance the effect of
• chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
• great: Very good; better than before
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• elevate: To make something higher
• proprietary: Protected by trademark, patent or copyright
• refund: To give money back, e.g. if a product is faulty
• closure: Feeling of accepting a death, divorce etc.
• mitigation: Act of making less severe or serious
• nimble: Being able to move quickly and easily
• hike: Large and unexpected increase in price, level etc.
• semiconductor: Silicon chip used in computers
• ram: Heavy device used to break through a door by force
• dell: Small wooded hollow in some land; small valley
• geopolitic: Study of relationship among politics and geography
• workspace: Space allocated for your work (as in an office)
• gamer: Person playing a game to a set of rules