Vocabulary

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involuntary unemployment

Noun

cost-benefit analysis

Noun

Phillips curve

Noun

frictional unemployment

Noun

structural unemployment

Noun

infant-industry argument; theory of infant-industry protection

Noun

inferior goods

Noun

superior goods

Noun

labor force participation rate; labour force participation rate

Noun

man with an unattractive, unusually shaped face

Noun

slow-witted person; dimwit; halfwit

Noun

weak child; frail child; gangly child

Noun

shaved head; person with a shaved head

Noun

old person smell

Noun

nonenal (fatty acid responsible for a distinctive body odor in older people)

Noun

modern boy

Noun

modern boy

Noun

to talk about someone behind their back; to backbite

Phrase

child

Noun

financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence

Phrase

personal handy-phone system; PHS; low-powered mobile network system developed in Japan and once popular in parts of Asia

Noun

Daddy-Long-Legs (novel by Jean Webster, 1912)

Noun

in truth; in actuality; at heart

Phrase

cornfield; corn field; maize field

Noun

having no way of knowing; being completely ignorant of

Phrase

swimmer

Noun

swimmer

Noun

money-centered way (of thinking)

Noun

swimmer

Noun

terror; terrorism

Noun

resounding voice; thunderous voice

Noun

question mark

Noun

punctuation marks and other special symbols

Noun

reversal of monies, funds, commissions

Noun

powdered tea

Noun

freshly brewed, aromatic tea

Noun

even a homely girl looks beautiful at the peak of her youth; even coarse tea tastes good when freshly brewed

Phrase

just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth

Phrase

indiscriminate mass murder

Noun

mass murderer

Noun