Activity: Language Learning, Cultural Immersion and
the Adventurous Life (You have it in Aula Virtual)
Definitions
Foray: Experience / reason to do sth
4
Sweat: effort
2
Bothering: putting interest or trying /taking into
consideration
1
Path: way
6
Hindered: limited
3
Pitfalls : mistakes
5
bi‧ased, biassed /ˈbaɪəst/ ●○○ AWL
adjective
1 unfairly preferring one person or group over another
- Of course I’m biased, but I thought my daughter’s
paintings were the best.
- racially biased attitudes
biased against/towards/in favour of
- news reporting that was heavily biased towards the
government
2 more interested in a particular thing than in
another
biased towards
- The majority of infants are biased towards being
social rather than being antisocial.
ar‧tic‧u‧late /ɑːˈtɪkjəleɪt $ ɑːr-/
●○○ verb
1 [transitive] formal to express your ideas or
feelings in words
- Many people are unable to articulate the unhappiness
they feel.
2 [intransitive, transitive] to pronounce what you are
saying in a clear and careful way
- He was so drunk that he could barely articulate his
words.
pre‧dic‧a‧ment /prɪˈdɪkəmənt/ noun
[countable]
a difficult or unpleasant situation in which you do
not know what to do, or in which you have to make a difficult choice
- the country’s economic predicament
- She went to the office to explain her predicament.
word‧smith /ˈwɜːdsmɪθ $ ˈwɜːrd-/ noun[countable] someone
who is clever at using language
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