Vocabulary

• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• push down: To apply pressure to something from above, forcing it downwards.
• of interest: Relevant or important to someone or something.
• in terms of
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• edged up: Increased slightly.
• bank: A financial institution that keeps or lends money
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• buying: To believe something; accept
• key: Answers to exercises, as at the back of a book
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• money: Coins or notes we use to pay for things
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• long: Person's name
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• news: Broadcast on radio or TV about recent events
• borrowing: To take and later return something from another
• push: To move into enemy country with a military attack
• tight: Showing anxiety or anger; tense
• oil: A liquid used for frying foods
• surprise: To do something that another person didn't expect
• save: To make your computer keep a file
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• percent: One one-hundredth of a whole; the symbol %
• central: Being in the middle
• interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• revise: To make changes or add something to improve
• forecast: Prediction of some future thing, e.g. the weather
• quantitative: Describing or measuring the amount of
• positively: In a manner showing agreement or support for
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• announcement: Act of informing people about something publicly
• shoot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
• addition: Act of adding something; thing that is added
• aggressive: Using energy and determination to achieve a goal
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• adopt: To legally take a child into your family
• stimulate: To arouse or excite emotionally
• stunned: To greatly shock or surprise; totally amaze
• ease: To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
• modest: Not large in amount, size, etc.; moderate
• lower: In a position more near the bottom
• adjustment: Small change to attain a desired state or function
• recovery: Process of returning to a former (good) state
• respond: To answer something or someone
• implement: To start to do something you plan to do
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• plunge: (Of prices, hopes etc.) to decrease very quickly
• outlook: General feeling or attitude about something
• impose: To make someone to do or endure something
• sentiment: Feeling or attitude you have about something
• linger: To take your time doing something; hang around
• monetary: Concerning a country's economic system
• pioneer: Person exploring a new place or field of endeavor
• stimulus: Something that causes a change
• benchmark: Standard by which other similar things are judged
• qualitative: Of the quality of (rather than quantity)
• deflationary: Marked by decreasing consumer prices
• yen: Currency used in Japan
• unexpected: Surprising because it was not expected
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way