Vocabulary

• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• make up: To invent or create a story
• on record: Formally and publicly stated
• for life: For the duration of one's life; permanently.
• shut down: To close an operating system, e.g. on a computer
• such as: For example; like
• from the start: From the very beginning; from the outset.
• under fire: Being heavily criticized.
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• unprecedented: Not having happened before, or to such a degree
• destination: The place you are traveling to
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• status: Position or rank relative to others in a society
• financial: Involving money
• recession: Act of moving backward gradually
• disrupt: To cause a disturbance in an activity in progress
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• shrink: To become smaller
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• democracy: System of government in which everyone is equal
• valuable: Being useful or important
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• retail: Business of selling products to the public
• drastic: Serious, severe or extreme
• dispute: To argue with someone about something
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• emergency: Sudden event needing an immediate action
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• censorship: Removing inappropriate material from books, films
• era: Period characterized by particular events, people
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• slash: Line ( / ) used in writing
• sentiment: Feeling or attitude you have about something
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• restore: To return a thing to its original condition
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• disruptive: Causing trouble; disturbing a class, etc.
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• ban: To make something illegal or not allowed
• swiftly: Quickly
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• forecast: Prediction of some future thing, e.g. the weather
• business: A company formed for making profit
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• tsunami: Huge sea wave often caused by an earthquake
• popular: Liked or enjoyed by many people
• colonial: Of a system where one country controls another
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• grapple: To engage in close hand-to-hand combat
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• erase: To remove data in computer memory, tape, etc.
• strong: (Of tea or beer) dark or thick
• downturn: Worsening of business or economic activity
• face: To cover a surface with something like paint
• total: Whole number or amount of something
• longterm: Continuing a long time into the future