Friday, October 23, 2009

ESL 5 Summary of Vocabulary and Idioms Oct 19-23, 2009


1. Affidavit
2. Anti-bacterial soap / Bacteria
3. Apparently
4. Brown lung disease
5. Complain / Complaint / Plaintiff
6. Contagious
7. Defend / defendant
8. Effect / effective / efficient
9. Germs / to spread germs
10. Hygiene
11. Infect / infection / disinfectant
12. Lawsuit / sue
13. Occupy / occupation / occupational
14. Organize / organization
15. OSHA / CCOHS
16. Productivity
17. Profit
18. Sick days
19. Spread of illness
20. To concentrate one’s attention
21. To do more harm than good
22. To eliminate
23. To give pointers
24. To infect
25. To prevent
26. To sterilize
27. To take one’s turn
28. Training
29. v. / vs. / Versus / Pro / Con
30. Virus / viruses
31. What a pain!
32. Work environment
33. Workplace conditions
34. You’re kidding!

Money Idioms
1. a windfall.
2. born with a silver spoon in his mouth
3. bottom dollar
4. burning a hole in his pocket
5. cheapskate
6. chicken feed
7. deadbeat
8. down and out
9. feel like a million dollars
10. flat broke
11. foot the bill
12. hand-outs
13. hard up for cash
14. hit the jackpot
15. lottery
16. make money hand over fist
17. money to burn
18. nest egg
19. penny wise and pound foolish.
20. pick up the tab
21. pinched pennies
22. scraped together
23. splurged
24. strapped for cash
25. strike it rich
26. to live on a shoestring