Monday, November 19, 2018

ALB2 19/11/18

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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