Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• online shopping: The activity of buying goods or services over the Internet.
• on the rise: Increasing; becoming more popular or common.
• regardless of
• draw in: To attract or entice someone or something.
• get between: To just do well enough to pass, e.g. a course
• take some time: To allocate or dedicate a period to a specific activity or purpose.
• better than ever: In a more improved or desirable state than at any previous time.
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• for free: Without charge; at no cost.
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• profound: Requiring deep thought; difficult to understand
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• delicate: Easily broken or damaged
• grocery: Daily foods such as flour, sugar, and tinned foods
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• instant: (Food) requiring very little preparation
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• hierarchy: Group that manages and controls an organization
• accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• adapt: To change something for a different function
• remote: Being far away from people, towns, etc.
• glamorous: Attractive in a sexy way; exciting; alluring
• retail: Business of selling products to the public
• pace: Rate of speed at which something moves or happens
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• lure: Appealing quality that attracts people
• anchor: Metal hook on a rope used to stop boats moving
• trend: Current style or fashion
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• fad: Something popular for a short time
• profit: Benefit from doing something
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• complement: To go with so as to make the whole complete
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• deck: Floor built into a ship, bus, plane or home
• expense: Money you have to pay to do part of your job
• sponsor: Person that supports the passage of a new law
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• prolong: To make continue for a longer amount of time
• business: A company formed for making profit
• cooperate: To work together with, to assist someone
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• cable: To transmit a message over a wire
• answer: To reply to a question someone asks
• interface: Place where things come together to communicate
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• quickly: Without taking a lot of time; fast
• stay: To keep trying without giving up
• calligraphy: Beautiful decorative handwriting of Kanji
• illustrator: Artist who makes illustrations for books etc.
• datum: Item of factual information
• close: Almost; near
• call: A order or request for action
• bless: To make something holy by saying a special prayer
• civic: Of a town or city; of rights or duties of citizens
• mall: Large public area often covered with grass
• adobe: Type of sun-dried brick made of straw and clay
• outdate: To be older than