Topic 1 : "Growth data send conflicting signals"
- Conflicting - different and opposing
- On the face of it - from the way it looks
- Projection - a calculation or guess about the future based on information that you have
- Attainable - Achievable
- Raise a flag - bring something to notice
- Pace - speed
- Slowdown - a decline in economic activity
- Outpace - to improve faster than someone
- Contraction - the process of becoming smaller
- Cited - stated (to mention something)
- Slackening - to become slower or less active
- Momentum - the force that keep something developing
- Impetus - something that encourages a particular activity
- Undergird - provide support for something
- Partly - not completely
- Sustainability - ability or capacity of something to be able to continue over a period of time
- Undermined - to make someone less powerful
- Protracted - lasting for a long time or longer than expected
- Slump - to fall suddenly
- Dampener - a thing that prevent (someone or something) from doing something
- Robust - strong
- Concern - to cause worry to someone
- Cautioned - say something as a warning
- Adequately - exactly (acceptable in quality or quantity)
- Methodology - a system of methods used in a particular area of activity
- Inflating - increase (something) by a large or excessive amount
- Rationale - a set of reasons that cause a particular set of actions
- Dispel - to remove fears, doubts, and false ideas, by proving them wrong or unnecessary
- Enhance - increase
- Credibility - the quality of being trusted and believed in
- High table - most important place at something
