Vocabulary

• regardless of
• at its peak: At the highest point of achievement, intensity, or development.
• charged with: To be officially accused of something
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• differs from: To not be the same as something else
• have to: Must do
• in real life: In the physical world; not online or in a fictional setting.
• lose out
• in theory: According to the stated ideas or principles
• in practice: In reality or actual use; as opposed to in theory.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• red flag: A warning sign or signal of danger or a problem.
• fight fire: To combat or extinguish a fire.
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• scenario: An imagined sequence of events in a plan/project
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• vast: Being very large in size or amount
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
• legitimate: Being born to legally married parents
• fraud: Use of dishonest ways to take something valuable
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• initial: First letter of your given name
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• alter: To change so (clothing) fits better
• disguise: Change in appearance so you will not be noticed
• compensate: To give (money) to as a form of correcting a loss
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
• retail: Business of selling products to the public
• prior: Existing or coming earlier in time
• nutrition: Scientific study of the effects of foods on health
• destructive: Causing a very large amount of damage
• recruit: Person who has just joined the military
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• immigrant: Person moving to another country to live there
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• pyramid: Four-sided structure with sides meeting at the top
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• entice: To attract someone by appealing to hope or desire
• founder: Person establishing an organization, school etc.
• legal: Concerning the law; allowed by law
• exponentially: (Of an increase) at a faster and faster rate
• product: Item that can be bought
• wary: Concerned about danger; cautious; circumspect
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• tenacious: Not giving up easily
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• part: Division of a book
• service: Work that a person does to assist others
• spite: Wish to hurt another person; malice; maliciousness
• knit: To join or be joined closely together
• lifetime: The time between birth and death
• empowerment: Giving the power to make their own decisions
• capitalize: To write words, the first letter in BIG LETTERS
• recruitment: Act of enlisting people into the army