Vocabulary

• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• up close and personal: Very near or intimately, often in detail or physically close.
• offensive to: Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.
• in circulation: Available and being used by the public.
• by day: During the daytime; not at night.
• screw up: Spoken to make a big mistake
• make up: To invent or create a story
• yellow pages: A telephone directory with listings of businesses, often printed on yellow paper.
• phone book: A book containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a particular area, with their telephone numbers.
• interest of: For the benefit or advantage of someone or something.
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• scratch: To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• number: Symbols such as 1, 2, 56, 793
• grand: A counter for 1000 of something
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• stock: Animals such as cattle kept for breeding
• shell: Hard outer cover of an egg, fruit, nut, or seed
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• recall: (Company) asking for the return of faulty goods
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
• code: To express information in a series of numbers
• transportation: Act of moving people or goods between places
• book: (Police) to officially record someone's crimes
• letter: One of the 26 parts of the English alphabet
• sluggish: Slow; moving like a slug
• cost: A loss or damage occurring when meeting a goal
• city: Area with many buildings, roads and people
• prize: Something won in a contest or given as an award
• probe: To carefully examine an issue by asking questions
• Miss: To be absent
• sell: To exchange something for money
• error: Something that is not correct; a mistake
• advertise: To show how good a product is, to make people buy
• plead: To ask or beg for something in an urgent way
• trading: To buy, sell and exchange goods in business
• banner: Cloth upon which is written a message
• boo: To shout out 'boo', to express your disapproval
• adultery: Sex acts committed outside a marriage
• Bible: Book of collected Christian writings
• recruitment: Act of enlisting people into the army
• hyphen: A dash put between words, e.g. wide-bodied
• trader: Someone who buys and sells stocks
• dealership: Someone who buys things to sell to others
• forte: Someone's strong point
• ale: Fermented alcoholic drink made from malt
• directive: An order from an authority
• typo: Mistake in printed matter
• specialization: Change in a plant or animal to fit its environment
• printer: Machine that makes copies of papers and documents
• bidder: Person who offers an amount to buy something
• takeoff: A composition imitating someones artistic work
• payday: Day on which you receive pay for your work
• yen: Currency used in Japan
• mistakenly: Through making a mistake; wrongly
• brokerage: Stock broker's business
• waive: To allow a rule to be ignored; dispense with
• shuttered: To close a business permanently
• shalt: Outdated form of 'shall'
• apiece: Each, individually