Historians, 1st Year, 1st group

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 own

29. To intend

30. Intention

31. Laws of supply and demand

32. (Religious) persecution

33. To escape religious persecution

34. To refuse

35. To hop down

36. Bloke

37. To quit

38. To chase away

39. To claim

40. To heal

41. To cure

42. Nasty habit

43. To struggle

44. To abandon

45. To relieve

46. To be relieved

47. To feel the urge (to do smth.)

48. To get over

49. To be hooked

50. Weight gain

51. Weight loss

52. To lead to

53. To lose weight

54. Dairy products

55. To be due to

56. To be linked to

57. Main meal

58. To absorb

59. Absorption

60. To advocate

61. Side effect

62. (Scientific) breakthrough

63. To be obsessed

64. Obsession

65. To support

66. To toss

67. To troop (into)

68. To purchase

69. To attempt

70. To suffer

71. To exclude

72. To share (room / office / flat)

73. To get on smb’s nerves

74. To insist on smth.

75. To complain

76. To resent

77. To receive

78. To encourage

79. To deliver

80. To retreat

81. Communal spaces

82. To socialize

83. To ruin

84. Prosperity

85. Sibling

86. On average

87. To devote

88. To admire

89. To proliferate

90. To draw the line

91. To escape

92. To disturb

93. Attachment

94. Disturbing

95. To set off

96. Traffic jam

97. To put one’s foot down

98. To chuckle

99. To nibble

100. To emerge

101. Emergence

102. To reveal

103. Flowery / long-winded description

104. Culture vulture

105. Ribtickler

106. To raise a smile

107. Happy-go-lucky sort of person

108. The final straw

109. To restrict

110. Restriction

111. To exhilarate

112. Exhilarating

113. Money makes the world go round.

114. There is no such thing as a free lunch

115. Put your money where your mouth is.

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

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

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

119. The main breadwinner.

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

121. To save for a rainy day.

122. To bet one’s bottom dollar

123. Other side of the coin.

124. To be broke.

125. To be out of money.

126. Not a shot in the locker

127. Every coin counts for him

128. Tighten one’s belt

129. Look / feel like a million dollars

130. To live beyond one’s means

131. Made of money

132. At all costs

133. Not a penny to bless oneself with

134. To have no penny to one’s name

135. To blow money.

136. To splash out on something.

137. To burn money.

138. To dock smb’s pay.

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

140. To be worth a fortune.

141. Priceless.

142. Worthless.

143. To cost next to nothing.

144. Dirt cheap.

145. Not worth a bean.

146. Not worth a pin

147. To cost an arm and a leg.

148. To pay through the nose.

149. To pay over the odds.

150. To make both ends meet

151. To live from hand to mouth.

152. To live on the breadline.

153. To have enough to meet one’s needs

154. Money makes money

155. Easy money

156. Pocket money

157. Earnest money

158. To have money to burn.

159. To stink rich.

160. To roll in it.

161. To live in the lap of luxury.

162. To live like a king.

163. All is not gold that glitters

164. Nest egg

165. As sound as a dollar

166. A penny saved is a penny gained.

167. A penny saved never comes to twopence

168. To look twice at every penny.

169. To the last penny / farthing.

170. To turn a penny.

171. To turn an honest penny.

172. To turn a useful penny.

173. Eagle eye

174. Easy on the eye

175. Strike one's eye

176. Look smb in the face

177. To have smb.'s ear

178. Up to the ears

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

180. To be all ears

181. To be on one's ear

182. To give ear to smb.

183. To have long / itching ears

184. To keep one's ears open

185. To perk / prick up one's ears

186. To set smb. by the ears

187. To bite smb.'s ear

188. To reach smb's ears

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

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

191. To turn a deaf ear (to)

192. Never get one’s hand near smth.

193. To wash one's hands of smth.

194. At hand

195. To change hands

196. To have one's hands full

197. Hands down

198. To have one's hands tied

199. To fall into good / bad hands

200. To give a helping hand

201. To throw up one's hands

202. To be on one's feet

203. To put / set smth. on foot

204. To carry smb. off his feet

205. To catch smb. on the wrong foot

206. To put one's feet up

207. To put one's best foot forward

208. To put one's foot down

209. To get a foot in the door

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

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

212. To land on one's feet

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

214. To have one's feet on the ground

215. Give your feet a rest

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

217. Not stir / lift / raise a finger

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

219. Scratch my back and I will scratch yours

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

221. To pull the wool over smb's eyes

222. To turn up one's nose

223. From under one's very nose

224. Not see an inch before one's nose

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

226. To bite smb.'s nose off

227. A shoulder to cry on

228. To put one’s foot in it

229. Not from this neck of the woods

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

231. To be up to one’s eyes (in work)

232. To play it by ear

233. To get it off one’s chest

234. To make up one’s mind

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

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

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

238. After one's heart

239. From the bottom of one's heart

240. A heart of gold

241. Half-baked (idea)

242. To spare (time)

243. To waste / spend (time)

244. Food for thought

245. To value

246. Valuable

247. To worth

248. To take on / take off

249. To insist

250. To reply

251. To disturb

252. Disturbing

253. Skills

254. Beyond the reach of reason

255. To attach

256. Attachment

257. To suggest

258. To pass time

259. To put one’s foot down

260. To survey

261. Survey

262. To nibble

263. To emerge

264. To whimper

265. To have a (little) nap

266. To(re) assure

267. To persuade

268. To reveal

269. Flowery

270. Long-winded

271. (In)decisive

272. (In)capable

273. To summarize

274. On the one hand / on the other hand

275. No-nonsense-taker

276. Ribtickler

277. Tasteful / tasteless

278. To fit

279. Culture vulture

280. To take smth. seriously

281. Bookish

282. To raise a smile

283. To be bound

284. Happy-go-lucky

285. To run the risk

286. (Un)adventurous

287. Tacky

288. Irresistible

289. Bargain

290. Estate

291. Property

292. To inherit

293. To sign

294. To reject

295. To have a good nose for smth.

296. To stare

297. To recover

298. Ordeal

299. To postpone

300. To disappoint

301. To remove

302. Temptation

303. To remove temtation

304. To submit

305. To get rid off smth.

306. To let down

307. To put off

308. To set off

309. To give back

310. To mess up

311. To give up

312. To let down

313. To go on

314. To give in

315. To use up

316. Go for it!

317. To get over

318. To pick up

319. To make up

320. To do up

321. To take after

322. To see off

323. To stop off

324. To find out

325. To look into smth.

326. To turn up / turn down

327. To dawn on

328. To come across

329. To count on smb. / smth.

330. To come over

331. To see through

332. To be at a crossroads

333. Worst enemy

334. To be at the peak of health

335. To drift from one thing to another

336. A rocky road

337. To be on the top of the world

338. Race against time

339. Sea of people

340. Total waste of time

341. A warm welcome

342. To involve

343. To be involved

344. To succeed

345. Success

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