Friday, September 4, 2009

ESL 5 Summary of Vocabulary and Idioms Aug 31 – Sept 4, 2009

Up and down

Double-dip recession
Easy credit / Credit squeeze
Nose dive / skyrocket
Recession / recovery
Roller coaster ride
Sales are flat / down / up.
Sales bounce up and down.
Volatile / volatility
1. “I’m just browsing.”
2. “I’m scouting out the place.”
3. “Keeping up with the Joneses.”
4. “We must live within our means.”
5. Abducting / abduction
6. Accessory to the crime
7. Awful lot
8. Back-to-school season
9. Beautiful
10. Brain-washed
11. C4C
12. Captive / capture <> Escape / release
13. CASAS eTest
14. Chase
15. Clunkers
16. Compound
17. Consumer confidence
18. DoNotCall.com
19. Edmunds.com
20. Fuel-efficient
21. Gas-guzzling
22. GDP (Gross National Product)
23. Get
24. Google = 10100
25. Handcuffs
26. Hardware
27. Heart-warming story
28. Hide
29. Hitting the marketplace
30. Incentive
31. International Monetary Fund
32. Kidnap / kidnapping
33. Laid off / called back
34. Mixed emotions
35. Nice spike
36. Pay attention more
37. Prison / imprison / imprisonment
38. Put off buying
39. Raised Hopes
40. Rape / rapist
41. Rebate
42. Regret / Guilt
43. Reimburse
44. Sell body parts for transplants.
45. Software
46. Spings to mind
47. Stimulus
48. Get stuck
49. Terrible
50. To keep pace with
51. Unwind
52. Vindicated
53. Voucher
54. Witness protection program
55. Yahoo = Crazy (person)