New vocabulary from all the lessons:
- trading volumes down
meaning: the trade is falling down
- to hunker down
meaning:hold a position in a strong way
example:The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down
- deal volumes plummeting:
meaning: the trade falls in a dratic way
- Fall out:
meaning:an unexpected or incidental effect, outcome, or product
example: The psychological fallout of being obese.
- Exalted specialists:
meaning:people with the best skills
- Expertise:
meaning: valuation; to have the experience to do something
example:The knowledge, expertise, and skills that you gain early on will form
the foundation for your later investigations.
- To be poised to:
meaning: to be ready to do something
- To snap up:
meaning: rush to obtain
example:the tickets were snapped up the morning they were put on sale
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SUFFIXES (NOUNS 2) page 116
· Abstain = Abstention
· Admit = Admission
· Clarify = Clarification
· Collide = Collision
· Confuse = Confusion
· Decide = Decision
· Discriminate = Discrimination
· Eliminate = Elimination
· Extend = Extension
· Indicate = Indication
· Instigate = Instigation
· Negotiate = Negotiation
· Permit = Permission
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· new idioms: to be on the ropes
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Use of the verb: to arise
· A question arises
· A problem arises
· An opportunity arises
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