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Increase and Decrease
| Upward movement | ||
| Verbs | Nouns | |
| to rise to increase to grow to climb to improve* to get better* *(only for positive situations) | 
| a rise an increase a growth an improvement* *(only for positive situations) |
| Downward movement | ||
| Verbs | Nouns | |
| to fall to decline to decrease to drop to deteriorate* to get worse* *(only for negative situations) | 
| a fall a decline a decrease a drop a deterioration* *(only for negative situations) |
NOTE:
There is a large group of two-syllable words which are both a noun and a verb, or an adjective and a verb, which are stressed on the first syllable of the noun or adjective, and the second syllable of the verb.
We are looking for ' finance - we need someone to fi'nance the company.
We are using a new ' transport company to trans'port the goods from China.
Two-syllable words that follow this stress pattern include:
conduct decrease increase refund
conflict discount permit reject
contrast export present survey
convert import produce transfer
Rate of Change
Adjectives and adverbs can describe both the quantity and the speed of a change
| Large changes | Fast changes | Regular changes |
| considerable - considerably dramatic - dramatically sharp - sharply significant - significantly substantial - substantially | abrupt - abruptly quick - quickly rapid - rapidly sudden - suddenly | gradual - gradually steady - steadily |
| Small changes | Slow changes | |
| moderate - moderately slight – slightly | slow - slowly |
High Points, Low Points, and Staying the Same
| To reach the highest point and then go down | To reach the lowest point and then rise | |||
| to peak to top out to reach a peak to reach a maximum |  
| to hit bottom to bottom out to reach a low point |  
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| To stay at the same level on the graph or chart | To go up and down continuously | |||
| to remain stable to stabilize to remain stabilized to level off | 
| to fluctuate
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1. Choose the graph (A-E) which best fits each sentence. You can use each graph more than once. 
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1.The inflation rate has remained steady over the past year.
2. The NASDAQ plummeted yesterday as technology stocks were hit again.
3. The Infotel share price has skyrocketed on news of the merger.
4. London was a little more bullish yesterday and the FTSE 100 advanced to 8,050.
5. Exports to the US have stagnated over the past year.
6. Demand for cheap air travel has increased dramatically.
7. The CAC 40 has fallen recently but now seems to have bottomed out.
8. The trade surplus has been growing slowly but steadily over the past three years.
