VOCABULARY AID: Basic and Additional Vocabulary (topics 38 - 48)

La cinquième partie ... still 25 topics to go!

Carsten




IX. Economy
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38. Work and working conditions
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Basics:
accident, account, advantage, agreement, application,
arrangement, deed, energy, gain, job, labour, mechanic,
pay, payment, profession, raise, rate, reward, salary,
union, wage(s), wage-earner, work -- to advance, to agree,
to attend, to earn, to employ, to engage, to enter, to
gain, to hire, to pay, to unite, to work -- careful,
careless, joint, unable, unemployed, (un)favourable,
(un)healthy

Additional:
vocation, calling/career, Labour Office/Exchange, vocational
adviser, vacancy, applicant (for), income / livelihood,
economy, insurance, labour/working conditions, working
class, tariff, employer / employee, personell, staff,
working hours, unemployment, vacation, pay envelope / wage
slip, (shorthand) typist, unemployed, out of work,
industrial, industrious, diligent / energetic, efficient,
imperative, indispensible


39. Craft (cf. 46)
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Basics:
bag, baggage, basket, bed, beef, beer, belt, bench, block,
boad, bow, bowl, box, bread, brick, brush, bunch, butcher,
button, cake, can, cap, chair, coat, cup, curl, cushion,
dress, fashion, hair, hat, key, kitchen, knife, ladder,
lamp, leaf, meat, model, nail, needle, order, organ, paint,
painter, paper, piece, pocket, practice, price, profit,
quality, quantity, rope, saddle, saw, scissors, shirt,
sleeve, stroke, tailor, tie, tool, towel, trunk, tube,
wall, watch, wear, weight, wheel -- to beat, to bend, to
bind, to break, to build, to cast, to curl, to cut, to
exercise, to fold, to furnish, to kill, to make, to nail,
to order, to paint, to polish, o produce, to rub, to
scrape, to screw, to stamp, to strike, to throw, to turn,
to twist, to wear, to weave, to weigh, to wind, to wipe, to
wrap -- careful, careless, modern, smooth, tight

Further verbs and adjectives cf. 38.

Additional:
craft, craftsman, artisan, journeyman, apprentice,
apprenticeship, workshop, implement, mason, bricklayer,
baker, miller, hair-dresser, barber, carpenter, joiner,
upholsterer, glazier, plumber, smith / locksmith, saddler,
shoemaker, watchmaker, optician, bookseller, printer,
engineer, furrier, weaver, spinner, carrier, dressmaker,
chimney-sweep, miner, anvil, chisel, screw-driver, drill,
gimlet, plane, file, spanner, wrench, joiner's bench, vice,
hatchet, a pair of pincers, to slaughter, to grind (ground,
ground), to solder, to spin (spun, spun), to tan, to dye,
to gild / to plate, to glaze, to plane, to bore, to melt,
to found, to sharpen, to weld, to rivet (to), to utilize,
to adjust, to produce s.o. s.th., to transport, by means
of, crafty, intentive


40. Industry (cf. 38/39)
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Basics:
advertisement, affair, association, bargain, bicycle, bill,
book, branch, bridge, business, car, carriage, chief,
clothes, control, cost, deal, factory, field, firm, head,
industry, inquiry, make, management, manager, market, mass,
mine, model, order, plant, plate, price, production,
profit, quality, quantity, representative, return, sale,
seat, staff, test, toy, trade, training, treatment, trial,
type, want, wear, work(s), yield -- to advertise, to buy,
to control, to cost, to effect, to establish, to manage, to
order, to produce, to provide, to sell, to send, to supply,
to test, to wear, to work, to yield -- busy, economical,
expensive, ugly, waste

Further verbs and adjectives cf. 38/39

Additional:
key-/heavy/basic/motor industry, enterprise,
cotton/paper/rolling/saw mill, spinning/weaving mill,
iron-/glass works, coal-mine, colliery, coal-pit, shaft,
foundry, blast-furnace, quarry, laboratory, inventor,
apparatus, crane, conveyor belt, assembly line, lathe,
process, finished products/goods, trade-mark, shutdown,
lock-out, shift, manufacturer, industrial, enterprising,
brand-new


41. Resources and Materials
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Basics:
ball, band, bar, chain, chalk, cloth, gold, iron, leather,
material, means, parcel, sack, salt, sand, seed, sheet,
shell, skin, snow, soap, soil, sort, steam, steel, stock,
stone, store, straw, string, stripe, stuff, sugar, thread,
water, wire, wood -- to solve, to sort, to supply, to
unload, to win -- bad, broad, hard, soft, solid, sour,
stiff, strong, tender, thin, tight, weak

Additional:
mineral, copper, lead, brass, platinum, sheet-iron,
quicksilver, sulphur, peat, tar, sand-stone, gravel,
pebble, clay, limestone, rock-salt, granite, marble /
slate, plaster of Paris, rubber / resin, uranium, raw
silk / silk dress, crystal, copper coin, iron bar, leather
coat, fluid, steely

Further adjectives cf. basic vocabulary


42. House-builiding: Building and Planning
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Basics:
admission, arrangement, bottom, building, circle, condition,
cottage, destruction, difficulty, effort, farm, front,
ground, home, hotel, house, inn, iron, metal, middle,
place, plan, position, rent, scale, shelter, simpicity,
size, slope, soil, space, spot, square, stage, station,
tent, theatre, tower, view -- to add, to arrange, to
attach, to build, to destroy, to develop, to handle, to
plan, to rent -- difficult, expensive, flat, irregular,
simple, square -- above, around, aside, behind, beneath,
beside, under

Additional:
structure, site, construction, foundation, blue print, beam,
pole, concrete, timber (Am lumber), dwelling-house, block
of flats (Am apartment house), to erect, to raise, to
construct, to enlarge, to enlarge, stately / neat,
magnificent, splendid, insanitary, cosy, snug


43. House-building: Buildings (cf. 54)
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Basics:
brick, court, cross, flight of stairs, floor, frame, garden,
gate, glass, grass, hall, key, passage, screw, stairs,
steel, step, stone, story, story, tool, wall, well, wood --
to cover, to fasten, to move, to occupy, to open, to rent,
to scrape, to stay, to step -- broad, empty, high, think

Additional:
dwelling/lodgings, ground-/(Am) first floor, threshold,
front-door, basement, nursery, pantry,
sitting-/living-room, water-closet, lavatory, ceiling,
pane, shutter, lift (Am elevator), pillar, to unlock, to
lodge, to reside, to dwell (dwelt, dwelt), spacious,
furnished, tidy, resident/living at, steep


44. Furniture, Equipment
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Basic:
bar, bath, bed, bell, chair, clock, curtain, furniture, key,
kitchen, picture, piece, sheet, table -- to arrange, to
bathe, to beat, to fasten -- ancient, beautiful, hard,
high, low, modern, nice, old, poor, rich, round, simple,
solid, thick

Additional:
household, wardrobe / cupboard, sideboard, desk, writing
table, easy chair, sofa / couch, chest of drawers, carpet
(Am rug), looking-glass, mirror, piano / grand piano,
stool, radio/television set, waste-paper basket,
refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, dustbin (Am ashcan),
sewing-machine, cofee-ill, typewriter, upholstery, to tone
with, to tidy (Am to straighten up), elegant


45. Heating and Lightning
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Basics:
coal, electricity, fire, gas, hea, lamp, light, match,
range, screen, smoke, wood -- to burn, to flash, to hang,
to heat, to light, to shine, to smoke -- clear, cold, dark,
electric(al), hot, light, warm

Additional:
fire-place, firing, central heating, stove / stove-pipe,
fuel, (electric) bulb, spark, match-box, candle, lighter,
electric torch, flashlight, socket, outlet, to kindle, to
extinguish, brightly lit


46. Household Goods
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Basics:
bag, balance, ball, barrel, basin, belt, bench, board,
bottle, bowl, box, brush, can, cap, clock, cover, curtain,
cushion, glass, hammer, knife, ladder, object, paint, pan,
pen, pencil, pin, pipe, plate, string, thread, towel -- to
attach, to bend, to brush,k to cast, to clean, to cut, to
damage, to empty, to fasten, to paint, to polish, to
repair, to scrape, to take off, to tie -- economic(al),
necessary, new, sharp, solid, useful

Additional:
tray, shovel, broom(stick), china, jug, pail, bucket, sieve,
hook, corkscrew, ash-tray, ironing-board, wax, glue, to
hook, to sieve, to wax, to grind (ground, ground), to tie
on, blunt, sticky


47. Wholesale Trade
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Basics:
account, activity, address, advantage, affair, amount,
arrangement, article, association, average, balance, bill,
book, business, call, carriage, coal, commerce, company,
complaint, cost, cotton, damamge, deal, debt, demand,
disadvantage, expense, form, gain, inquiry, message, order,
origin, plant, profit, progress, representative, request,
request, requriement, result, return, risk, ruin, sale,
total, trade, yield -- to address, to advance, to amount,
to balance, to buy, to call, to carry, to cost, to cover,
to damage, to deliver, to estimate, to gain, to inquire, to
orde,r to organize, to profit, to provide, to require, to
reserve, to rise, to risk, to ruin, to satisfy, to sell, to
send, to supply, to total, to trade, to yield -- available,
on the average, busy, commercial, expensive, extraordinary,
extreme, original

Additional:
wholesale/forein trade, Chamber of Commerce (Am Board of
Trade), joint-stock company, importation/exportation,
purchase, customer, competitor, ware-, storehouse, sample,
specimen, merchandise, pattern, liability, invoice,
gross/net weight, catalogue, receipt, trade-mark, delivery,
dispatch, conveyance, cargo (pl cargoes), partner, to
execute, to import, to dispatch, to convey, to compete
with, profitable, slack, confidential


48. Bank (cf. 47)
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Basics:
account, balance, change, check, confidence, debt, deed,
expense, gold, list, metal, money, owner, possession,
property, protest, savings, silver, statement, stock,
terms, value, worth -- to balance, to change, to draw, to
exchange, to gather, to list, to owe, to own, to possess,
to protest, to save, to solve, to spare -- avialable,
false, more, much, own, valuable

Additional:
exchange, cheque (Am check), cheque-book, currency,
savings-bank, cash, ready money, bank-note (Am bill), rate
of exchange/of interest, bill (of exchange), credit, funds,
debtor, security, investment / transfer, to deposit, to
secure form, to invest, to credit s.o., to reckon, to
transfer, ample, secure / fireproof

Further verbs and adjectives cf. 47; 49.

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