Money

Vocabulary

Match a word on the left with its opposite in the column on the right.
What parts of speech are the words?

miser (n-p): keo kiệt credit

(person who likes to
Keep all his money)
Debt : món nợ priceless: vô giá
(owe money - in debt)

Generous: hào phóng millionaire: triệu phú

Extravagant: xa hoa hard-up (poor) (adj) (id) ( - not much money)

(adj - spends a lot/wastes money)
income: lương tight-fisted (adj) (id) (- doesnt like to spend money)

beggar: người ăn xin mean

worthless: vô giá trị spendthrift (n - p) (person who spends and wastes money)

well off (rich) expenditure e.g bills, rent, food etc

(adj) (idiom) (lots of money)

Im not an extravagant person, I don’t care much about expensive clothes and luxury
items - I try to save what I can. I think its important to be careful with money - I don’t
want to get into debt in the future.

My best friend Tommy is really tight-fisted - he never likes to spend money. Whenever
we go out I always pick up the bill. I remember last weekend, when it was my birthday I
had to pay for both of us!

Same or different?
Decide whether the following pairs of words / phrases mean the same or different.
If they are different, explain the difference.

price a lot of money rich cost of living income

value more money wealthy standard of living salary