VOCABULARY WEALTH AND

POVERTY

By Alejandro Márquez ❤
 HARDSHIP /ˈHɑːRD.ƩɪP/

• A condition that causes difficulty or 
suffering:
• Many farmers are facing real economic
hardship after the drought killed all
their crops.
 IMPOVERISHED /ɪMˈPɑː.Vɚ.ɪƩT/

• Extremely poor
• There’s no money to help impoverished
communities build basic facilities like
schools and medical centres.
 AFFLUENT /ˈÆF.LU.ƏNT/

• Having a lot of money or

possessions; rich:
• In affluent suburbs like this one, house
prices are extremely high.
 PROSPERITY /PRɑːˈSPER.Ə.T̬ I/

• The state of being successful
 and having a lot of money
• There’s a direct relationship between a
good education system and the
economic prosperity of a country.
 MAKE ENDS MEET

• To have just enough money to 

pay for the things that you need
to live
• Even though I got a pay rise last year, I
still find it difficult to make ends meet.
 WELL OFF

• Rich:
• My grandparents used to be relatively well off,
but they lost all their money in bad investments.
• Having a lot of or a number of something:
• The city is well off for parks and gardens.
 DISPOSABLE INCOME
/DɪˌSPOƱ.ZƏ.BƏL ˈɪN.KʌM/

• The money that you can spend as

you want and not the money that you 
spend on taxes, food, and other basic
 needs
• He lives with his parents and pays no bills,
so he has a lot of disposable income.
 DEPRIVED /DɪˈPRAɪVD/

• Not having the things that are necessary for a 

pleasant life, such as enough money, food, or
good living conditions
• In the most deprived areas of the city, unemployment
stands at around 50% and social problems are rife.
• She had a deprived childhood
• He took pictures in deprived areas of the city.
 LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS

• To spend less on your lifestyle than

you generate in earnings
• We can’t go on using our credit cards
all the time. We have to learn to live
within our means.
 DESTITUTE /ˈDES.Tɪ.TƩUːT/

• Without money, possessions, or
any of the things needed to live:
• They lost everything they had in the
flood and were left destitute.