Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• in battery: Refers to artillery arranged and ready for use.
• or simply: Alternatively; in a more straightforward way.
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• in terms of
• to some extent: Partially; not completely.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• out of nowhere: Suddenly and unexpectedly; from an unknown place or source.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• on the order of: Approximately; about a certain amount or number.
• take on: To acquire a new characteristic
• build out: To expand or develop something, such as a business or system.
• ramp up: To increase the level or amount of something sharply.
• advanced technology: Cutting-edge or highly developed technology.
• at the end of the day: Ultimately; when everything else is considered.
• break even: To neither make a profit nor a loss
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• set to: To energetically begin to do, e.g. making a fire
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• material: Cloth; fabric
• thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• specifically: As regards a particular thing; closely related to
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• extent: Point, level or limit to which something reaches
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• decade: Period of 10 years
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• mechanism: Part of a machine that performs a certain function
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• volatile: Able to easily become a gas at a low temperature
• arguably: Highly likely to be true but not certainly true
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• capture: To attract and hold e.g. interest, attention
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• raw: Being uncontrolled or strong, as your emotions
• grid: Electrical network supplying electricity to area
• soar: (Of prices, etc.) to increase a lot in a short time
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• mineral: Substance naturally formed in the ground
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• mining: To place a bomb in the ground or the sea
• refine: To change slightly in order to improve it
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• battery: Portable device that stores electricity
• multi: A prefix meaning 'many' or 'more than one'
• graphite: Black substance that is used in pencil lead
• downstream: In the direction of a stream's current
• miner: Someone working in a mine to dig out coal, etc.
• sully: To make dirty; soil or tarnish
• cathode: Electrode by which electricity leaves a battery
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer