a1 vocab

• Abide by, comply with, conform to

  Follow the rules
• Industrious

  Hardworking
• Deterioriate

  Become progressively worse
• Prevalent,


  widespreadCommon
• Sedentary

  Characterised by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place
• Disposition, temperament

  A person's inherent qualities of mind and character
• Aggravate, exacerbate


  To worsen
• Detrimental,


  deleteriousHarmful
• Adolescent

  Teenager
• Primary

  Most significant
• Secondary


  Coming after, less important than primary
• Ramifications


  Consequences
• Curtail

  To shorten or reduce
• Unwind

  To relax
• Adversity

  Hardship
• Inculcate

  To impress the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly ; values
• Upper strata / echelons of society

  Wealthy, high social-economic status and power
• Affluent


  Wealthy
• Exorbitant

  Unreasonably high ; expensive
• Philanthropist


  Lover of mankind ; doer of good
• Unscrupulous, underhand


  Having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair
• Condone


  To pardon or overlook
• Gratification, tenacity


  Satisfaction
• Resolve

  Determination
• Succumb, yield (to)

  To give in
• Indigenous


  Native
• Grave, acute

  Serious ; large problem
• Lucrative

  Profitable
• Lawful

  Allowed by law
• Susceptible


  Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance
• Confide


  To trust (another) with information or a secret
• Impetuous

  Impulsive
• Jeopardise

  To endanger
• Myriad

  A very large number
• Trivial

  Unimportant
• Potable

  Fit to drink
• Futile, come to nought

  Pointless ; ineffective
• Merits

  Good qualities of something or someone
• Shortcomings

  A fault or failure to meet a certain standard, typically in a person's character, a plan, or a system
• Inadvertently


  Unintentionally