Vocabulary

• truck in: To bring goods or materials by truck to a location.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• have to: Must do
• on to: Toward something; forward
• making ends meet: To manage to live on the money you have.
• compared with: In relation to
• on time
• on the market: Available for sale.
• slightly: Only a little
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• consumption: The act of buying and using products
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• previous: Existing or happening before the present time
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• temporarily: For a limited amount of time
• temporary: Continuing for a limited time; not permanent
• eligible: Being able to be chosen or selected; suitable
• insurance: Protection against loss/injury/death you pay for
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• maintenance: Keeping (a machine) working by checking and fixing
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• haul: To pull or drag something heavy (e.g. boat)
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• transportation: Act of moving people or goods between places
• fill: To make something full
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• agricultural: Concerning farming, or the land
• business: A company formed for making profit
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• part: Division of a book
• elevate: To make something higher
• freight: Commercial transportation of goods
• diesel: Heavy mineral oil used for power engines
• unfortunate: Having bad luck; bringing a bad result
• exemption: Release from duties others are required to do
• harvesting: To gather ripe crops in from the fields
• gallon: Unit of liquid equal to 4 US quarts (3.785 liters)
• twofold: Two of something
• trucking: To transport something on a lorry, van