Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• amount: Quantity of something
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• substantial: (Of a meal) able to satisfy your hunger; filling
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• contribution: Helping a cause by giving money, things, services
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• picture: General situation or state of being
• happen: To take place or occur
• earn: To deserve something because you worked for it
• review: To carefully look at the quality of something
• main: Most important; most often used
• talk: Style of speaking
• bank: A financial institution that keeps or lends money
• table: Diagram that shows data in rows and columns
• job: Something that must be done
• sizable: Fairly large
• money: Coins or notes we use to pay for things
• earning: To deserve something because you worked for it