Vocabulary - Money 4

Choose the right answer.

1) When you retire at the age of seventy, you receive a(n).......... from the government.

2) I gave the shop assistant twenty pounds and he gave me three pounds .......... .

3) "Can you .......... something for the homeless?" she asked, rattling a collecting box.

4) Families on low incomes are having to economise .......... gas and electricity.

5) She got this skirt when she was in Amsterdam. It was a real .......... .

A) FINE	money that you must pay as a punishment
B) PENSION	money that someone regularly receives after they have stopped working
C) ALLOWANCE	an amount of money that is given to somebody regularly
D) GRANT	money that is given by the government or by another organization

A) REST	the remaining part of something (doesn't fit the context)
B) MONEY	what you earn by working or selling things (doesn't fit the context)
C) COINS	small flat pieces of metal used as money (doesn't fit the context)
D) CHANGE	the money that you get back when you have paid for something

A) PROVIDE	to give someone something that they want or need (doesn't fit the context)
B) LEAVE	to go away from a person or a place
C) SPARE	to make something such as time, money available for someone
D) GIVE	to pass something to someone (doesn't fit the context)

A) ECONOMISE ON	to reduce the amount of money, time, goods etc. that you use
B) ECONOMISE FOR	ECONOMISE isn't followed by FOR
C) ECONOMISE AT	ECONOMISE isn't followed by AT
D) ECONOMISE OF	ECONOMISE isn't followed by OF

A) PURCHASE	(n) the act or process of buying something
B) ECONOMY	(n) careful use of money, resources,
C) CHEAP	(adj.) not expensive
D) BARGAIN	(n) something you buy that costs much less than normal