Money

Question 1

allocate

Answer 1

to give out different amounts for different purposes (zuteilen, zuweisen, aufteilen)

Question 2

commodity

Answer 2

a thing that can be bought an sold, such as grain, oil or wood (Handelsware, Ware, Rohstoff)

Question 3

decline

Answer 3

to decrease in power or amount (senken, zurückgehen, fallen, ablehnen)

Question 4

equity

Answer 4

the value of one’s share in an investment (Eigenkapital)

Question 5

inflation

Answer 5

a situation in which prices for many items rise quite fast (Inflation)

Question 6

net

Answer 6

after all costs have been substracted from an amount (netto)

Question 7

per capita

Answer 7

for each person (pro Kopf)

Question 8

regulate

Answer 8

control according to a set of rules (regulieren, vorschreiben)

Question 9

subsidy

Answer 9

money given by a government or organization to support an activity (Subvention, Zuschuss, Förderung)

Question 10

tangible

Answer 10

obviously real because it can be seen, touched or otherwise observed (greifbar, konkret, handfest)

Question 11

accumulate

Answer 11

to build up a large amount of something (anhäufen, sammeln, ansammeln)

Question 12

affluence

Answer 12

wealth and the style of life that goes with it (Wohlstand, Reichtum)

Question 13

elite

Answer 13

belonging to a special, honored group (Elite)

Question 14

impoverish

Answer 14

to make a person or group poor (verarmen, verkümmern)

Question 15

luxury

Answer 15

extreme comfort, beyond what anyone needs (luxuriös)

Question 16

nobility

Answer 16

a group of specially prominent people with special titles given by a king or queen, such as “duke” or “countess” (Adel)

Question 17

prestige

Answer 17

honor and respect for being better than the average (Ansehen, Prestige)

Question 18

privileged

Answer 18

able to enjoy special advantages because of one’s position (privilegiert)

Question 19

prosper

Answer 19

to do very well in one’s business or personal life (gedeihen, wachsen, blühen, florieren)

Question 20

working class

Answer 20

people with low-paying jobs who are not poor but who are not securely in the middle class (Arbeiterklasse)

Question 21

acquire

Answer 21

to get something, usually something with special value or meaning (erwerben, kaufen, erlangen)

Question 22

asses

Answer 22

to estimate the value of something (beurteilen, bewerten, schätzen)

Question 23

asset

Answer 23

a possession that has positive value (Vermögen, Vermögenswert)

Question 24

hazardous

Answer 24

dangerous (gefährlich, gefahrvoll, riskant)

Question 25

jointly

Answer 25

together with one or more other parties (gemeinsam)

Question 26

liability

Answer 26

legal responsibility for harming a person or property; a disadvantage (Haftung, Verbindlichkeit, Verantwortung, Schuld)

Question 27

proprietor

Answer 27

owner, usually of a business or a building (Eigentümer)

Question 28

safeguard

Answer 28

to protect (gewährleisten, absichern, schützen)

Question 29

sole

Answer 29

only (einzig, allein)

Question 30

lease

Answer 30

to rent something for a long time (mieten, pachten, leasen)

Question 31

compensate

Answer 31

to give an employee money or things in exchange for the work he does (ausgleichen, ersetzen, entschädigen)

Question 32

dynamic

Answer 32

full of energy (dynamisch, rasant)

Question 33

enterprising

Answer 33

creative in thinking of ways to make money (geschäftstüchtig, unternehmerisch)

Question 34

exploit

Answer 34

to take advantage of; to treat inconsiderately in order to profit (ausnutzen, ausbeuten, ausschöpfen)

Question 35

incentive

Answer 35

a possible benefit that motivates a person to do a certain thing (Anreiz, Motivation, Bonus)

Question 36

industrious

Answer 36

willing to work hard (fleißig, arbeitsam, emsig)

Question 37

marginal

Answer 37

not ver significant or effective (geringfügig, knapp, am Rand-)

Question 38

merit

Answer 38

Value; success based on ones work, not luck (verdienen, wert sein)

Question 39

promote

Answer 39

to move someone to a higher position in a company (befördern)

Question 40

resign

Answer 40

to quit ones job (kündigen, abtreten, zurücktreten)

Question 41

distill

Answer 41

to remove one liquid from a mixture of liquid by boiling; to get something valuable from a confusing mix of ideas (destillieren)

Question 42

entrepreneurial

Answer 42

able to create business opportunities from a wide variety of circumstances (unternehmerisch)

Question 43

extract

Answer 43

to take out (entnehmen, gewinnen, entziehen)

Question 44

haggle

Answer 44

to argue back and forth about a price (feilschen, handeln)

Question 45

intrepid

Answer 45

fearless (unerschrocken, kühn)

Question 46

merchant

Answer 46

a person who makes a living by selling things (Händler, Kaufmann)

Question 47

proportionately

Answer 47

in an amount appropriate to each of several recipients (entsprechend, anteilig)

Question 48

prototype

Answer 48

the first one made if a machine or system (Prototyp)

Question 49

reward

Answer 49

something one gets for having done well (Belohnung, entlohnen, prämieren)

Question 50

shuttle

Answer 50

to move back and forth often between two places (pendeln, hin- und herfahren)