Vocabulary

• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• start in: To begin a job or activity.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• differs from: To not be the same as something else
• give away
• initiative: Ability to come up with solutions by yourself
• native: Someone from or born in a specific country
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• incentive: Something that encourages you to do something
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• financial: Involving money
• humble: Being lower in quality or status
• worth: the financial, practical or moral value of somebody/something
• diversity: Having a range of different races, ideas etc.
• accumulate: To gather or acquire so that you have more of it
• modest: Not large in amount, size, etc.; moderate
• value: Importance you attach to something
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• stock: Animals such as cattle kept for breeding
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• performance: Act of doing something
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• charity: Kindness and willingness to forgive, help
• splurge: Indulging yourself by buying something expensive
• fortune: What might happen to you in the future
• wealth: Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• lavish: To use or give a lot of something
• promote: To try to encourage popularity/sales of a product
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• annual: Happening once a year, or every year
• regularly: At the usual time each day, week, or month
• square: Shape with 4 equal length sides and 4 equal angles
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• intend: To plan or want to do something
• alphabet: Letters, symbols, characters of a written language
• ripple: Small gentle low wave on the surface of water, etc.
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• founder: Person establishing an organization, school etc.
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• predecessor: Something that comes before another in a series
• pharmacy: Shop where medicines are prepared and sold
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• donate: To give money, etc. to charity, party, etc.
• nephew: Son of your brother or sister
• altruism: Selfless concern for the well-being of others
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• median: Being in the middle or average
• differ: To be different; to be not like others
• pebble: Small, smooth stone, as found on a beach
• ship: Large boat
• underwear: Clothes worn next to skin/under outer clothes
• foot: Base of something such as a mountain or vase
• philanthropic: Giving money to charity; charitable
• total: Whole number or amount of something
• push: To move into enemy country with a military attack
• shipyard: Workplace where ships are built or repaired
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer
• alto: Concerning the lowest female (highest male) voice