Vocabulary Project

The demise of something or someone is their end or death.

1.A reward.

1.If a person, a country, or an organization has prestige, they are admired and respected because of the position they hold or the things they have achieved.
2.Prestige is used to describe products, places, or activities that people admire because they are associated with being rich or having a high social position.

1.to support something or make it stronger
2.to show respect for and approval of someone, especially in public

3.to promise to tell the truth in a court of law

1.to fall straight down very quickly from a high position
2.if something such as an amount, rate, or value plummets, it suddenly becomes much lower

3.plumb-line

1.To cause (a currency or an economy) to undergo inflation
2.To raise or expand abnormally or improperly.

3.To enlarge or amplify unduly or improperly

4.To fill (something) with air or gas so as to make it swell.

1.to give a bank the right to own a valuable possession, especially your house, if you do not pay back money that you have borrowed from them

1.arouse or increase (trouble or discontent)
2.apply warmth and moisture to (a part of the body) to lessen pain or discomfort

1.property or other goods that you promise to give someone if you cannot pay back the money they lend you
2.Situated or running side by side
3.Coinciding in tendency or effect

4.Serving to support or corroborate

5.Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line

1. a very dangerous or frightening situation
2. a deep empty hole in the ground
3. a very big difference that separates two people or groups

1. legal responsibility for something, especially for paying money that is owed, or for damage or injury
2. (pl.)the amount of debt that must be paid
3. someone or something that is likely to cause problems for someone

1. aw illegal or dishonest activity

1. to refuse to be responsible for something, when you should be or were before

1. to enter something and pass or spread through it, especially when this is difficult
2. to start to sell things to an area or country, or to have an influence there
3. to succeed in becoming accepted into a group or an organization, sometimes in order to find out their secrets
4. to succeed in understanding something

1. to give up your power, position, or an advantage, especially when you do not want to do this

1. a robust person is strong and healthy
2. a robust system, organization etc is strong and not likely to have problems
3. a robust object is strong and not likely to break
4. showing determination or strong opinions
5. robust food or flavours have a good strong taste

1. to be the cause of a situation or feeling

1. the business of selling goods in large quantities at low prices to other businesses, rather than to the general public
2. affecting almost everything or everyone, and often done without any concern for the results

1. to make money available to someone in order to invest or to buy something such as a company
2. to spread or use resources (=money, skills, buildings etc that an organization has available) , ideas etc again in several different ways or in different parts of a company, system etc
3. the use of lever

1. an additional result of something you do, which may not have been clear when you first decided to do it

1. to publicly support a political group, country, or person that you agree with
2. to arrange things so that they form a line or are parallel to each other, or to be in a position that forms a line etc
3. to organize or change something so that it has the right relationship to something else

1. when you guess about the possible causes or effects of something without knowing all the facts, or the guesses that you make
2. when you try to make a large profit by buying goods, property, shares etc and then selling them

1. a row of small bushes or trees growing close together, usually dividing one field or garden from another
2. something that protects you against possible problems, especially financial loss
3. to reduce your chances of failure or loss by trying several different possibilities instead of one

1. causing a lot of argument and disagreement between people
2. someone who is contentious often argue with people

1. In economics, a tranche of shares in a company, or a tranche of a company, is a number of shares in that company.
2. A tranche of something is a piece, section, or part of it. A tranche of things is a group of them.

1. a situation in which all people are treated equally and no one has an unfair advantage
2. the amount of money that you would have left if you sold your house and paid off the money you borrowed to buy the house
3. shares in a company from which the owner of the shares receives some of the company's profits rather than a fixed regular payment

1. careful, thorough, and exact
2. very severe or strict

1. something that is very large, from The Bible

1. big and heavy
2. a hefty amount of something, especially money, is very large

1. if you assemble a large number of people or things, or if they assemble, they are gathered together in one place, often for a particular purpose
2. to put all the parts of something together

1. if you are assailed by unpleasant thoughts or feelings, they worry or upset you
2. if a strong smell or loud sound assails you, you suddenly experience it
3. to attack someone or something violently
4. to criticize someone or something severely

1. to be even better or greater than someone or something else (expectation, understanding)

1. a group of things of the same kind that are very close together
2. a group of people in the same place

1. to suddenly move very quickly in a particular direction
2. if a feeling surges or surges up, you begin to feel it very strongly
3. if a large amount of a liquid, electricity, chemical etc surges, it moves very quickly and suddenly
4. sudden increase

1. to believe that something is true
2. to calculate something

1. to make something look better by being close to it and different
2. the cost or amount of something offsets another cost or amount, the two things have an opposite effect so that the situation remains the same

1. a plan, idea, or method that is feasible is possible and is likely to work

1. having a lot of experience of life, and good judgment about socially important things such as art, fashion etc
2. a sophisticated machine, system, method etc is very well designed and very advanced, and often works in a complicated way
3. having a lot of knowledge and experience of difficult or complicated subjects and therefore able to understand them well

1. a very powerful force, organization etc whose effect or influence cannot be stopped

1. to take the place of a person or thing so that they are no longer used, no longer in a position of power etc

1. to develop well and be successful
2. to grow well and be very hea
3. to wave something in your hand in order to make people notice it

1. difficult time when there is less trade, business activity etc in a country than usual

1. bad economic conditions in which people do not have much money to spend
2. when a government has a deliberate policy of trying to reduce the amount of money it spends
3. the quality of being austere

1. an official process of counting a country's population and finding out about the people
2. an official process of counting something for government planning

1. relating to money, taxes, debts etc that are owned and managed by the government

1. to press something firmly together with your fingers or hand
2. to get liquid from something by pressing it
3. to try to make something fit into a space that is too small, or to try to get into such a space
4. to strictly limit the amount of money that is available to a company or organization

1. state of having assets that can easily be changed into cash
2. state of being liquid

1. amount by which sth, esp a sum of money, is too small
2. excess of debts over income; amount of this excess

1. to move, fall, or be thrown suddenly forwards or downwards
2. if a price, rate etc plunges, it suddenly decreases by a large amount
3. if a ship plunges, it moves violently up and down because of big waves

1. to control or limit something in order to prevent it from having a harmful effect
2. an influence which helps to control or limit something
3. control (a horse) by means of a curb

1. so different in kind or degree that they cannot be compared

1. owing money or gratitude to sb

1. something that helps a process to develop more quickly or more strongly
2. something that makes someone or something move or react

1. the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country
2. to give official permission for something to happen
3. to order someone to do something

1. never having happened before, or never having happened so much

1. a union of two or more political parties that allows them to form a government or fight an election together
2. a group of people who join together to achieve a particular purpose, usually a political one

1. someone or something that is very slow or late

1. a feeling of being unhappy and not satisfied with the situation you are in

1. not good at doing something with a complete lack of skill

1. An incipient situation or quality is one that is starting to happen or develop

1. to become worse

1. a volatile situation is likely to change suddenly and without warning
2. someone who is volatile can suddenly become angry or violent
3. a volatile liquid or substance changes easily into a gas

1. causing death, or able to cause death

1. too strange or unusual to be thought real or possible

1. the process of buying something such as raw materials or currency in one place and selling them immediately in another place in order to make a profit from the difference in prices

1. a situation in which a country's economy is not growing or succeeding
2. a situation in which there is no progress or development

1. different from what you expected to find

1. Something that is omnipresent is present everywhere or seems to be always present. (FORMAL)

1. bad economic conditions in which people do not have much money to spend
2. If you refer to something as showing austerity, you like its plain and simple appearance.

1. too good or skilful for anyone else to copy with the same high standard

1. something that you allow someone to have in order to end an argument or a disagreement
2. a special right that a particular person or group of people is allowed to have, for example by the government or an employer, or the act of giving or allowing something as a right
3. a reduction in the price of tickets, fees etc for certain groups of people, for example old people or children
5. the right to have a business in a particular place, especially in a place owned by someone else

1. to remove government rules and controls from some types of business activity

1. regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior

1. someone who supports the activities of an organization, for example by giving money
2. a famous person who is officially involved with an organization, such as a charity, and whose name is used to help advertise it
3. formal someone who uses a particular shop, restaurant, or hotel

1. formal a break or interruption in an activity
2. a space where something is missing, especially in a piece of writing

1. not having enough money to pay what you owe

1. to press or push something down by lightly hitting it several times

1. money paid by a defeated country after a war, for all the deaths, damage etc it has caused
2. when you give something to someone or do something for them because you have done something wrong to them in the past

1. to spread an idea or belief to as many people as possible
2. to make a new law come into effect by announcing it officially

1. very easy to notice
2. conspicuous success, courage etc is very great and impressive

1. tacit agreement, approval, support etc is given without anything actually being said

1. a ticket that can be used instead of money for a particular purpose
2. an official statement or receipt that is given to someone to prove that their accounts are correct or that money has been paid

1. the entrance to a room or building, or the area of floor or ground at the entrance
2. the level at which something starts to happen or have an effect

1. not controlled by strict rules, but decided on by someone in a position of authority

1. to make something less bad
2. to do something that will improve what other people think of you, after you have behaved badly or failed
3. to exchange a piece of paper representing an amount of money for that amount of money or for goods equal in cost to that amount of money
4. to buy back something which you left with someone you borrowed money from
5. to do what you promised to do

1. recently designed or produced - usually used to show disapproval or distrust

1. using or connected with the metric system of weights and measures
2. metrical