| coherent | coherence |
| eloquent | eloquence |
| fluent | fluency |
| hesitant | hesitation |
| inhibited | inhibition |
| persuasive | persuasiveness |
| responsive | responsiveness |
| sensitive | sensitivity |
| succinct | succinctness |
| clear | clarity/clearness |
| wind up | close down, stop running |
| roaring | very profitable |
| make a pile | earn very much money |
| break even | not to earn and not to lose |
| sharp practices | unfair activity |
| shady | suspicious, which may not (seems not to) be legal |
| through the nose | about paying: too much |
| entrepreneur | business man/woman |
| in kind | about paying with goods, not money |
| on a shoe-string | with little money invested |