VOCABULARY UNIT 6
Across
- 3. Taiwan's success in electronics is a _______ of economic policies that lifted the island from poorhouse to powerhouse in a generation.
- 4. Most companies do this in order to reduce costs of labour and to to hire specialists
- 9. The goods carried by a ship or aircraft
- 10. We do this to calculate the cost or amount of something.
- 11. An idiom used to it makes the other thing possible
- 13. The new company that just listed its IPO certainly has the _________for growth.
- 14. To decide which of a group of things are the most important
- 15. The company cannot accept _________ for any damage caused by natural disasters
- 17. She showed _________talent for getting what she wanted.
- 19. The island's ___________ had no immunity to the diseases carried by the explorers and quickly succumbed.
- 20. a word or expression from a particular subject area that has become fashionable because it has been used a lot. E.g. Staycation
Down
- 1. Made in a way that causes, little or no damage to the environment
- 2. A synonym of 'disaster'
- 5. You could never _________ risk, but preparation and training could attenuate it.
- 6. Juices left in bags that contained raw meat can _________the cooked leftovers.
- 7. The difference between the two products is too small of an amount to be of importance.
- 8. Old people are particularly ________ to the flu. That is why it is necessary to get a flu jab at 50 years
- 12. Merchants will give refunds on any damaged or ________merchandise.
- 16. Public sale of goods usually sold to the highest bidder.
- 18. The Doctor said a ________ of morphine is decreased respiration, which can lead to death.