Important Vocabulary

• Threshold: Beginning
• Likelihood: Probability
• Jurisdiction: Geographical area with a particular legal system
• Keep track of: Follow and control the development of
• Civil unrest: Demonstrations against the government, riots, etc.
• Rogue traders: Criminals who do not supply goods customers have paid for
• Dispossessed: People without belongings, money, or power
• Disenfranchise: To take away people’s power
• Evaporating: Disappearing
• Embrace: Accept, take account of
• Go under: Fail to survive
• Rosy: Promising, hopeful
• Off the beaten track: In remote places, a long way from economic centers
• Obscurity: Become marginal and unimportant
• Blind: Don’t see or understand
• Degenerate: Decline, get much worse
• Mutate: Change (from one thing to another)
• Thrive: Grow and be healthy

Extracted From

MacKenzie, I. (2002). English for Business Studies: A course for Business Studies and Economics students (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.