Vocabulary

• to the point: Expressing something directly and without unnecessary detail.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• consists of: Is made up or composed of.
• have to: Must do
• feel the pinch: Experience financial difficulties or economic pressure.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• add on: To attach or include something extra.
• cut back: To use less of something
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• for the rest: Concerning the remaining people or things.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• cultivate: To grow plants, crops etc.
• elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
• reputation: Common opinion that people have about someone
• insult: To disrespect someone by being rude or impolite
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• financial: Involving money
• adequate: Enough; good enough for what is needed
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• fierce: Very strong, wild or violent
• leverage: An advantage which gives you influence or power
• craft: To make by hand and with much skill
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• remarkable: Interesting and unexpected, worthy of notice
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• aid: To help others and provide things
• outcome: Something that happens as a result, consequence
• institution: Organization created for a particular aim/purpose
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• undermine: To weaken or destroy secretly and usually slowly
• prestige: High respect and status, as from being successful
• scam: A trick to fool other people to get their money
• boast: To speak of something with too much pride
• adolescence: Developmental period typically in the teen years
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• obsess: To talk or think about someone, something too much
• revolution: When a group overthrows an existing government
• portray: To play a character in theater or on film
• pinch: A very small amount of something
• nurture: Care and support given to people as they develop
• stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
• league: Group of people, countries with a common goal
• increasingly: More and more; in greater degree or amount
• bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
• statistic: Number that represents a piece of information
• scandal: Unacceptable/immoral event causing public shock
• fascination: Quality that attracts attention
• important: Having power or authority
• block: Solid piece of material used for building
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• overly: To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• hysteria: A case of wild, uncontrollable behavior or panic
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• quit: To leave a job
• attend: To take care of someone in need
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• verbally: Through speech; using words
• repeatedly: (Said, done) many times; over and over
• entry: Act of entering a room, building, party
• barometer: Any instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
• atlantic: Of the ocean between Africa and the Americas
• university: High-level educational institution; college
• found: To become aware of something that is happening
• enroll: To put someone into a group; to register
• endowment: Natural ability or quality
• ivy: Climbing plant growing up walls of buildings
• numeral: A number
• warren: Large network of connecting rabbit burrows