Vocabulary list reading texts
Zakelijk en economisch Engels 1 - BA 1 - UA
TEXT 1: The seed of the energy crisis lies in tomatoes. 2
TEXT 2: Have South-Africans lost the ability to be offended or must we be intolerant
of intolerance? 4
TEXT 3: Unions are on a roll. And they unite a divided nation. 5
TEXT 4: Can international sporting events really clean up a country’s tarnished
image? 6
TEXT 5: The toughest challenges for cryptocurrency lie ahead, not in the rear-view
mirror. 7
TEXT 6: America acts while the UK’s online safety bill remains in legal limbo. 8
TEXT 7: Some seniors readily step back, some never will. 9
TEXT 8: Time is up for neoliberals. 10
TEXT 9: EU presents China with a clear way to avert EV duties - good luck with that.11
TEXT 10: Why green growth must look different in the global south. 12
, TEXT 1: The seed of the energy crisis lies in tomatoes.
- utterly = completely, totally
- to be entangled = to be closely connected
- doubtless = surely, without a doubt
- odd = strange
- to commit = to decide firmly
- to cap = to limit
- extraordinary = unusual
- expense = cost
- indulge me = allow me
- glistening = shiny
- domestic = local
- crop = farm plants
- cavernous = very large
- tomato vines = tomato plants
- sprouting = growing
- hydroponic = water-grown
- substrate = growing base
- stretching = extending
- drenched = soaked
- enriched = made stronger
- the upshot = the result
- hence = therefore
- clip = cut
- to yield = to produce
- forensic = very precise
- barely budged = hardly moved
- being pumped in = being pushed through
- to aid = to help
- to capture = to collect
- the boiler’s flue = the gas pipe
- to glance at = to look quickly
- to aggregate = to combine
- to be struck by = to be surprised by
- columnist = opinion writer
- totted up = added
- headline rate = main rate
- to ponder = to think about
- the bug = the problem
- conventional = traditional
- blithely = carelessly
- to presume = to assume
- to substitute = to replace
- cliff-edge = sudden crisis
- libertarian = pro-freedom
- legislation = laws
- free-marketeers = market believers
Zakelijk en economisch Engels 1 - BA 1 - UA
TEXT 1: The seed of the energy crisis lies in tomatoes. 2
TEXT 2: Have South-Africans lost the ability to be offended or must we be intolerant
of intolerance? 4
TEXT 3: Unions are on a roll. And they unite a divided nation. 5
TEXT 4: Can international sporting events really clean up a country’s tarnished
image? 6
TEXT 5: The toughest challenges for cryptocurrency lie ahead, not in the rear-view
mirror. 7
TEXT 6: America acts while the UK’s online safety bill remains in legal limbo. 8
TEXT 7: Some seniors readily step back, some never will. 9
TEXT 8: Time is up for neoliberals. 10
TEXT 9: EU presents China with a clear way to avert EV duties - good luck with that.11
TEXT 10: Why green growth must look different in the global south. 12
, TEXT 1: The seed of the energy crisis lies in tomatoes.
- utterly = completely, totally
- to be entangled = to be closely connected
- doubtless = surely, without a doubt
- odd = strange
- to commit = to decide firmly
- to cap = to limit
- extraordinary = unusual
- expense = cost
- indulge me = allow me
- glistening = shiny
- domestic = local
- crop = farm plants
- cavernous = very large
- tomato vines = tomato plants
- sprouting = growing
- hydroponic = water-grown
- substrate = growing base
- stretching = extending
- drenched = soaked
- enriched = made stronger
- the upshot = the result
- hence = therefore
- clip = cut
- to yield = to produce
- forensic = very precise
- barely budged = hardly moved
- being pumped in = being pushed through
- to aid = to help
- to capture = to collect
- the boiler’s flue = the gas pipe
- to glance at = to look quickly
- to aggregate = to combine
- to be struck by = to be surprised by
- columnist = opinion writer
- totted up = added
- headline rate = main rate
- to ponder = to think about
- the bug = the problem
- conventional = traditional
- blithely = carelessly
- to presume = to assume
- to substitute = to replace
- cliff-edge = sudden crisis
- libertarian = pro-freedom
- legislation = laws
- free-marketeers = market believers
