Vocabulary

• on the market: Available for sale.
• custom made: Designed and manufactured specifically for a particular customer.
• under construction
• make up: To invent or create a story
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• in terms of
• in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• in good condition: Being in a satisfactory or healthy state; not damaged or deteriorated.
• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• stroke of luck: A sudden and unexpected piece of good fortune.
• check out
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• parliament: Elected officials who govern a country (in the UK)
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• stroke: When blood cannot get to brain, causing damage
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• court: To act in a way to shows you wish to marry someone
• faith: Belief in a god or gods; religion
• path: Method of living leading to a particular result
• vessel: Container, such as a cup, for holding liquids
• acquisition: Process of acquiring; thing that is acquired
• purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
• snap: To close your mouth quickly like biting something
• estate: A large piece of land, usually with a large house
• grand: A counter for 1000 of something
• evoke: To bring forth a certain feeling or memory
• fortune: What might happen to you in the future
• anchor: Metal hook on a rope used to stop boats moving
• palm: Inner area of a person's hand
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• luxury: Something expensive bought for pleasure
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• scarcity: Very small or limited amount of something
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• auction: To sell to a person offering the highest price
• sanction: Official support or approval
• sector: Part that a place is divided into
• bid: To propose an amount you want to pay for something
• canal: Channel cut through land for boats or ships
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• mediterranean: Describing the sea between Italy and Africa
• adjust: To change; to attain a desired state or function
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• deck: Floor built into a ship, bus, plane or home
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• prevail: To be successful against enemy/problem
• float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• found: To become aware of something that is happening
• yacht: Large expensive boat
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• allege: To state without proof
• location: Particular position or area of place, event, etc.
• postcard: Card for sending messages by post
• deco: Geometric style popular in the 1920s and 1930s
• spa: Place you go to bathe in/drink water for health