English vocabulary for graphs es una de las lesiones más prácticos y útiles que doy. En un momento en el trabajo hayas tenido que leer, escuchar o explicar el vocabulario de un gráfico. Así que ya es la hora de dejar de usar siempre lo mismo ‘go up’ y ‘go down’ y empezar a usar vocabulario más avanzado. Aquí te presentamos algunas de las varias maneras de hablar de una subido o bajada en un gráfico.
Vocabulary and Examples
Rocket
- to rise quickly or make extremely quick progress in a short amount of time.
- Our results rocketed in the third quarter.
Plummet
- To fall quickly and suddenly
- Once the pandemic hit, our sales plummeted.
Hit a low
- Hit a low is used to refer to the lowest point on a graph
- The sales hit a low of .9% in 2008 before rising to 2.9% in 2018.
Peak
- When something hits a peak, it reaches the highest point on the graph.
- The top of the mountain is referred to as the peak, so on a graph the peak usually looks like a mountain.
- Gas prices peaked last week and will hopefully start to fall now.
Expand
- To increase in size or number
- Retail operations expanded in the 1990s.
Shrink
- To decrease in size or number
- Once the economic crisis hit, the retail operations began to shrink again.
Rise
- To move upwards
- Inflation rose by 2.8% in just one month.
Fall
- To move downwards
- Demands for cars has fallen since the rise of gas.
Raise
- To cause something to increase
- the government decided to raise taxes by 2%.
Lower
- To move something to a low position or reduce something.
- The bank has lowered the interest rates again.
Climb
- to increase
- The cost of housing has climbed over the last 3 years.
Deteriorate
- to become worse
- The economic conditions continue to deteriorate due to the global pandemic.
Fluctuate
- To be unstable.
- To move up and down.
- The number of cases of COVID continues to fluctuate from one month to the next.
Remain stable
- To maintain the same status.
- Although the economy is not doing very well, the unemployment rate remains stable.
Get better
- To improve
- Although the sales have remained stable over the last year, we see that things are beginning to get better little by little.
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