Vocabulary

• to do with: To be about something; concern
• at minimum: At the lowest or smallest amount or degree.
• have to: Must do
• paying off: To give money to get person to do something; bribe
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• lead to: To result in some action
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• in another way: Using a different method or approach.
• cut costs: To reduce expenses or spending.
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• constantly: Frequently, or without pause
• enormous: Huge; very big; very important
• overwhelming: To defeat something or someone completely
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
• consume: To eat, drink, buy or use up something
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• burden: To weigh down with a load; impose a task upon
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• debt: Sum of money owed to someone that is not yet paid
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• sluggish: Slow; moving like a slug
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• examine: (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• degree: Amount or extent of something
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• respond: To answer something or someone
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• ironically: Contrary to plan or expectation
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• complicate: To make more difficult to do, understand or use
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• tuition: Money that is paid for lessons
• increasingly: More and more; in greater degree or amount
• policy: Document stating terms of an insurance agreement
• staff: Employees of a company
• public: Owned by the government
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• fill: To make something full
• athletic: Fit and strong; physically capable
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• subsidize: To aid, assist, or help pay a cost or price
• minimum: Smallest degree or level that is acceptable
• diploma: Document certifying graduation
• administrative: Concerning managing an organization
• exponentially: (Of an increase) at a faster and faster rate
• equate: To consider things to be equal or the same
• unemployment: Number of people without jobs in a country
• upward: Toward some higher point or position