Exercise № 12.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 480.
Describing graphs, trends, and changes
| Going up | Verbs: | to advance, to climb, to increase, to rise, to grow, to gain ground, to head north, to improve, to go up | |
| Nouns: | an advance, an increase, a rise, a growth, a climb, a hike, an upturn | ||
| Going down | Verbs: | to decline, to drop, to fall, to head south, to lose ground, to retreat, to slide, to go down | |
| Nouns: | a decline, a drop, a fall, a retreat, a slide, a downturn | ||
| These words used to talk of an upward or downward trend do not in themselves indicate by how much the index have gone up or down. | |||
| Going up by small or moderate amounts | v | to edge ahead, to edge higher, to edge up, to firm | |
| Going down by small or moderate amounts | v | to dip, to drift (lower), to ease, to edge down, to edge lower, to slip (lower) | |
| n | a dip, a drift, a slip | ||
| Going up by large amounts | v | to jump, to leap, to roar ahead, to roar up, to rocket, to shoot ahead, to shoot up, to skyrocket, to soar, to surge (ahead) | |
| n | a jump, a leap, a surge | ||
| Going down by large amounts | v | to dive, to nosedive, to plunge, to plummet, to tumble | |
| n | a dive, a nosedive, a plunge, a tumble | ||
| Going down fast by very large amounts | v | to collapse, to crash, to crumble, to slump | |
| n | a crash, a collapse, a slump | ||
| No change | to remain stable, to level off, to stay at the same level, to remain constant, to stagnate, to stabilize, to remain steady | ||
| Change of direction | to peak, to reach a peak, to top out, to reach a low point, to bottom out, to recover, to rebound, to revive | ||
| The amount of increase can also be indicated using these verbs: | to halve, to double, to triple, to quadruple, to increase fivefold | ||
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| Exercise № 11. | | | Fill in the gaps with appropriate words. Explain your choice. |