Friday, January 15, 2010

ESL 5 Summary of Vocabulary/Idioms Jan 11-15, 2010


  1. Add / addition

  2. Adjust / adjustment

  3. All-time high

  4. Bargain

  5. Before <> After / afterwards

  6. Boom <> Bust

  7. Budget

  8. Charity

  9. Citizenship status

  10. Clutter <> de-clutter

  11. Collateral

  12. Come / Come over / Come on over!

  13. Come on . . . please?

  14. Complain / letter of complaint

  15. Complicate / complication

  16. Consumer

  17. Cosmetic repairs

  18. Creative / think creatively

  19. Determine

  20. Down payment

  21. Equity

  22. Favorable

  23. Features

  24. Financial planner

  25. Fact sheet

  26. First of all

  27. Foundation

  28. Green Jobs

  29. Homeowner rates

  30. Identity theft

  31. Imply / implication

  32. Informed decision

  33. Landscaping

  34. Lookie-loos

  35. Looking over her shoulder

  36. Lot

  37. Lottery

  38. Maleware (computer virus)

  39. Mortgage

  40. Open House

  41. Opportunity

  42. Pattern

  43. Permit / permission

  44. Phase

  45. Promotion

  46. Purchase

  47. Real estate agent

  48. Real estate boom

  49. Refinance

  50. Scam / scam artist / scamp

  51. Sig alert

  52. Square footage

  53. Stage / stager / stage a house

  54. Sweepstakes

  55. Take advantage of

  56. Track homes

  57. Trend

  58. Upgrade

  59. Value

  60. Variety