Answer Key
Finance – New Vocabulary Practice
Fill in the missing words. Choose one of the words below. Sometimes you need to put them in the right form.
- GOODWILL
- ENSUE
- APPOINT
- DISPUTE
- NIL
- BLEAK
- SCRATCH
- BLUE
- SKELETON
- ASSUME
- There was just the steel [skeleton] of a building. Nothing else.
- I [assume] that you'd like more time to decide.
- Julia has been [appointed] the chief operating officer of the company.
- His future prospects are [bleak] .
- Iran's ex-president has said in a public release that the U.S. should show [goodwill] .
- The panic that [ensued] from the false news report was incredible.
- I'm not [disputing] what you say. I'm just interested.
- His credit rating is [nil] .
- After the depression he started another business from [scratch] .
- The inheritance came out of the [blue] , as a stroke of good fortune.