ENGLISH - UNIT 1 - GLOSSARY

VOCABULARY

  • VAT: Value Addict to Taxes
  • Tips: an extra money you give to a waiter or a driver to thank him or her for the service.
  • Compulsory: something you must do because of a rule.
  • Familiar: something you know.
  • Easy-going: relaxed
  • Direct: saying exactly what you mean.
  • Acceptable: something that you can allow.
  • Fair: appropriate.
  • Cocky: too confident.
  • Nevertheless: however, even so.
  • Currency: money system.
  • Demonstration: public protest.
  • Bustling: full of people.

EXPRESSIONS

  • Breaking news: something important.
  • He is short-sighted: a person who is myopic.
  • fell homesick: a person who go to another country and miss her or his house.
  • settled into: when a person is comfortable in a house of another country.

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