Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Vocabulary history

Let's keep track of our 10 words a week:

Week 1:
  1. securitize
  2. liquidity
  3. liabilities
  4. lay off
  5. severance
  6. leverage
  7. foreclosure
  8. seize
  9. renege on
  10. dire
  11. broad
  12. convene
  13. lawsuit
  14. leap
Week 2:
  1. ease
  2. poverty
  3. bankruptcy
  4. rally
  5. shrink
  6. hoard
  7. sway
  8. confidence
  9. trust
  10. plunge
Week 3:
  1. staples
  2. GDP (gross domestic product)
  3. IMF (International Monetary Fund)
  4. losses (take losses)
  5. dependent (dependent on)
  6. challenge
Week 4:
  1. lawsuit
  2. crawling peg
  3. base borrowing rate
  4. overnight rate
  5. track (spending)
  6. frugal
  7. stingy
  8. to weather (a crisis)
  9. stick to something (a budget)
  10. moratory interest
  11. late fees