Basic concepts 2

• go somewhere fast

  tear
• going a short distance quickly

  nip
• A vehicle going quickly

  zip/whizz
• Something moving rapidly and out of control

  career
• to take small rapid steps

  scamper/scurry/scuttle
• make fast upwards movement

  soar
• make rapid downwards movement

  tumble
• a fairly slow movement, but it is one that is particularly unsteady

  totter
• to walk anxiously and nervously

  sidle
• to move more slowly than is necessary, or to waste time

  dawdle
• quickly, suddenly caused

  precipitated
• closeness, similarity; feeling that different things/people have much in common

  affinity
• the equivalent of (normally used in negative contexts)

  tantamount to
• used for different types within a group, but emphasises separation and difference

  disparate
• different and separate, not overlapping

  discrete
• the suffix -fold means ‘multiplied by that number’ (eg. by two)

  twofold
• changed to a higher number

  revised upwards
• gone up and down at regular intervals

  seesawed
• not regular and often changing suddenly

  erratic
• calculated total

  aggregate
• temporary change

  blip
• Brutto-Sozial-Produkt

  Gross Domestic Product
• the amount of money spent on something

  expenditure
• add everything up (less formal)

  tot everything up
• been cautious

  erred on the side of caution