| A | B |
| cut back on | reduce or do less of |
| debt | money you owe to someone |
| focus | concentrate your attention on |
| down payment | a deposit fof money for a house |
| monitor | to check the work of someone of something |
| in charge of | to be responsible for |
| prioritize | to put in order of importance |
| outstanding | better than excellent |
| tutor | someone who offers one-on-one help |
| mortgage | money you borrow from a bank to buy a house |
| expenses | the cost of money of things you want or need |
| acronym | letters of the alphabet that represent a word |
| on line job bank | an employment search engine found on the Internet |
| merge | to join to things, such as companies together to become one company |
| custom | tradition |
| costume | clothes you put on to pretend you are someone or something different |
| customer | a person who buys a product |
| client | a person who buys a service |
| vocation | a learned trade |
| advance | to move ahead |