Vocabulary exercises

1. economy

a) a person, company, or country that makes or grows goods, foods, or materials.

2. expansion

b) a set of connected things that work together as a whole for a particular purpose.

3. infrastructure

c) someone who gives money to a company, business, or bank in order to get a profit.

4. investor

d) the activities of buying and selling goods or services.

5. marketplace

e) the part of business activity that is concerned with buying and selling goods in competition with other companies.

6. producer

f) the process of making a business, organization, or activity grow by including more people, moving into new areas, selling more products etc.

7. productivity

g) the rate at which goods are produced, and the amount produced, especially in relation to the work, time, money, and workers needed to produce them.

8. system

h) the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country.

9. trade

i) the system by which a country's money and goods are produced and used.

1. to dampen

a) to completely change the appearance, form, or character of something or someone, especially in a way that improves it.

2. to ensure

b) to continue to do something, although this is difficult, or other people oppose it.

3. to evolve

c) to develop and change gradually over a long period of time.

4. to persist

d) to encourage or help an activity to begin or develop further.

5. to spearhead

e) to lead an attack or organized action.

6. to stimulate

f) to make certain that something will happen properly.

7. to transform

g) to make something such as a feeling or activity less strong.

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Word

Synonym

Antonym

1. acceptable

2a. appropriate

3a. disguised

2. ac­cessible

2b. approved

3b. improper

3. conventional

2c. available

3c. inac­cessible

4. dynamic

2d. constructive

3d. irregular

5. flagrant

2e. frequent

3e. lethargic

6. produc­tive

2f. powerful

3f. personal

7. proper

2g. public

3g. solitary

8. recurrent

2h. reluctant

3h. unacceptable

9. regular

2i. satisfactory

3i. unconventional

10. social

2j. shocking

3j. unproduc­tive

11. suc­cessful

2k. systematic

3k. unsuc­cessful

12. unwilling

2l. triumphant

3l. willing