POLITICAL STUDENTS, 1st year

VOCABULARY LIST

1. Gold fever / gold rush

2. To discover

3. Discovery

4. To contribute

5. Resident

6. To trickle (into)

7. To destroy

8. To catch someone’s eye

9. To make a statement

10. To declare

11. To descend (on the country)

12. To mortgage

13. To borrow

14. To band

15. Joint stock company

16. To collapse

17. To alter one’s vision

18. Opportunity

19. To make money

20. To make sense

21. To make a mess

22. To take a chance

23. To take a risk

24. To take advantage

25. To benefit

26. To make a fortune

27. To escape

28. To intend

29. Intention

30. Laws of supply and demand

31. (Religious) persecution

32. To escape religious persecution

33. To refuse

34. To struggle

35. To be due to

36. To be linked to

37. Main meal

38. To absorb

39. Absorption

40. To advocate

41. (Scientific) breakthrough

42. To be obsessed

43. Obsession

44. To support

45. To toss

46. To troop (into)

47. To purchase

48. To attempt

49. To suffer

50. To exclude

51. To share (room / office / flat)

52. To get on smb’s nerves

53. To insist on smth.

54. To complain

55. To resent

56. To receive

57. To encourage

58. To deliver

59. To retreat

60. Communal spaces

61. To socialize

62. To ruin

63. Prosperity

64. Sibling

65. On average

66. Obsession

67. To be obsessed

68. To purchase

69. To remain

70. To beat

71. Unbeaten

72. To score

73. A draw

74. To suffer

75. To attempt

76. To exclude

77. To equalize

78. Injury time

79. Alarm clock

80. To set the alarm clock

81. Lad

82. Bloke

83. Waste of time

84. To hitchhike

85. Hitchhiking

86. To date

87. Date

88. To deserve

89. To order

90. To desire

91. To regret

92. To fancy

93. To intend

94. To expect

95. To insist on

96. To get on one’s nerves

97. To share (a room / an office}

98. To complain

99. Fault

100. Discreet

101. To apologize

102. Row

103. Bill

104. Survey

105. To survey

106. To investigate

107. To deceive

108. To hurry up

109. To depend on smb. / smth.

110. To affect

111. To become clear

112. Money makes the world go round.

113. There is no such thing as a free lunch

114. Put your money where your mouth is.

115. In for a penny, in for a pound.

116. Watch the pennies, and the pounds take care of themselves

117. The love of money is the root of all evil.

118. The main breadwinner.

119. To be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth

120. To save for a rainy day.

121. To bet one’s bottom dollar

122. Other side of the coin.

123. To be broke.

124. To be out of money.

125. Not a shot in the locker

126. Every coin counts for him

127. Tighten one’s belt

128. Look / feel like a million dollars

129. To live beyond one’s means

130. Made of money

131. At all costs

132. Not a penny to bless oneself with

133. To have no penny to one’s name

134. To blow money.

135. To splash out on something.

136. To burn money.

137. To dock smb’s pay.

138. To make a fast buck / to chase after easy money

139. To be worth a fortune.

140. Priceless.

141. Worthless.

142. To cost next to nothing.

143. Dirt cheap.

144. Not worth a bean.

145. Not worth a pin

146. To cost an arm and a leg.

147. To pay through the nose.

148. To pay over the odds.

149. To make both ends meet

150. To live from hand to mouth.

151. To live on the breadline.

152. To have enough to meet one’s needs

153. Money makes money

154. Easy money

155. Pocket money

156. Earnest money

157. To have money to burn.

158. To stink rich.

159. To roll in it.

160. To live in the lap of luxury.

161. To live like a king.

162. All is not gold that glitters

163. Nest egg

164. As sound as a dollar

165. A penny saved is a penny gained.

166. A penny saved never comes to twopence

167. To look twice at every penny.

168. To the last penny / farthing.

169. To turn a penny.

170. To turn an honest penny.

171. To turn a useful penny.

172. Eagle eye

173. Easy on the eye

174. Strike one's eye

175. Look smb in the face

176. To have smb.'s ear

177. Up to the ears

178. In at one ear and out at the other.

179. To be all ears

180. To be on one's ear

181. To give ear to smb.

182. To have long / itching ears

183. To keep one's ears open

184. To perk / prick up one's ears

185. To set smb. by the ears

186. To bite smb.'s ear

187. To reach smb's ears

188. Not to bat / blink an eye(lid)

189. To blush to the tips of one's ears

190. To turn a deaf ear (to)

191. Never get one’s hand near smth.

192. To wash one's hands of smth.

193. At hand

194. To change hands

195. To have one's hands full

196. Hands down

197. To have one's hands tied

198. To fall into good / bad hands

199. To give a helping hand

200. To throw up one's hands

201. To be on one's feet

202. To put / set smth. on foot

203. To carry smb. off his feet

204. To catch smb. on the wrong foot

205. To put one's feet up

206. To put one's best foot forward

207. To put one's foot down

208. To get a foot in the door

209. To know / get / find / the length of smb.'s foot

210. To put one's foot in one's mouth

211. To land on one's feet

212. To be run off one's feet , be rushed off one's feet

213. To have one's feet on the ground

214. Give your feet a rest

215. To burn one's fingers / get one's fingers burnt

216. Not stir / lift / raise a finger

217. To have smth at one's fingertips / to know smth like the back of one's hand

218. Scratch my back and I will scratch yours

219. To do smth. behind the back of smb.

220. To pull the wool over smb's eyes

221. To turn up one's nose

222. From under one's very nose

223. Not see an inch before one's nose

224. To poke / thrust one's nose (into)

225. To bite smb.'s nose off

226. A shoulder to cry on

227. To put one’s foot in it

228. Not from this neck of the woods

229. T have one’s fingers in a lot of pies

230. To be up to one’s eyes (in work)

231. To play it by ear

232. To get it off one’s chest

233. To make up one’s mind

234. To batter one's head against a brick wall

235. To beat smth. into smb.'s head

236. To have a good head on one's shoulders

237. After one's heart

238. From the bottom of one's heart

239. A heart of gold

240. Half-baked (idea)

241. To spare (time)

242. To waste / spend (time)

243. Food for thought

244. To value

245. Valuable

246. To worth

247. To take on / take off

248. To fit

249. Bargain

250. Estate

251. Property

252. To inherit

253. To sign

254. To reject

255. To have a good nose for smth.

256. To stare

257. To recover

258. To dial

259. To feel the urge

260. To heal

261. Healing

262. To cure

263. To keep doing smth.

264. To transmit

265. Muddy (accent)

266. Fingertips

267. Nasty habit

268. To quit

269. To abandon

270. To annoy

271. To celebrate

272. To demand

273. Demanding

274. To claim

275. To hook

276. To be hooked

277. To relieve

278. To be relieved

279. Ordeal

280. To postpone

281. To disappoint

282. To remove

283. Temptation

284. To remove temptation

285. To submit

286. To involve

287. To be involved

288. To split up

289. To trust

290. To own

291. To include

292. To grow up

293. To troop into

294. To get rid off smth.

295. To give up

296. To knock over

297. To look over

298. To put on

299. To put off

300. To put back

301. To pick up

302. To dawn on

303. To step on it

304. To see through

305. To hop down

306. To drive away

307. To chase away

308. To come over

309. To look into

310. To count on

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