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Touchstone 3 - Unit 2 Words and Expressions
Experiences you have and haven’t had
1. amazingly - surprisingly
2. blog - a contraction of the term "weblog; a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary
3. flu - influenza an infectious illness like a very bad cold that also causes a fever
4. fortunately - receiving or bringing a good thing that was uncertain or unexpected
5. hang gliding - the sport of flying using an aircraft consisting of a light frame over which cloth or similar material is stretched in order to catch the wind when a person holding it jumps off a cliff
6. hurt - 1 to cause someone pain or to injure them
2 when a part of your body is painful
3 to cause emotional pain to someone
4 to have a harmful effect on something
7. impressed - made to admire or respect someone
8. journal - 1 a magazine containing articles about a particular subject
2 a book in which you regularly write about what has happened to you
9. many times - a large number of occasions
10. nestled - in a sheltered or secluded place
11. parasailing - a sport in which somebody wearing a parachute rises high into the air from a platform at the back of a moving motorboat or from the water behind the boat and is towed along
12. scary - causing fear or alarm
13. scuba diving - an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, now widely considered a word in its own right; a form of underwater diving
14. sort - a group of things which are of the same type or which share similar qualities
15. spirit away - to move someone or something out of or away from a place secretly
16. several - a small number, though more than two or three
17. skiing - a group of sports using skis as primary equipment, usually in the snow.
talent - an unusual natural ability to do something well, especially in artistic areas that can be developed by training
18. white-water rafting - a challenging recreational activity using an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water, usually in different degrees of rough water
19. wildlife - animals, birds, and plants, living in a natural undomesticated state
20. windsurfing - the sport of riding and steering a sailboard
2. blog - a contraction of the term "weblog; a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary
3. flu - influenza an infectious illness like a very bad cold that also causes a fever
4. fortunately - receiving or bringing a good thing that was uncertain or unexpected
5. hang gliding - the sport of flying using an aircraft consisting of a light frame over which cloth or similar material is stretched in order to catch the wind when a person holding it jumps off a cliff
6. hurt - 1 to cause someone pain or to injure them
2 when a part of your body is painful
3 to cause emotional pain to someone
4 to have a harmful effect on something
7. impressed - made to admire or respect someone
8. journal - 1 a magazine containing articles about a particular subject
2 a book in which you regularly write about what has happened to you
9. many times - a large number of occasions
10. nestled - in a sheltered or secluded place
11. parasailing - a sport in which somebody wearing a parachute rises high into the air from a platform at the back of a moving motorboat or from the water behind the boat and is towed along
12. scary - causing fear or alarm
13. scuba diving - an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, now widely considered a word in its own right; a form of underwater diving
14. sort - a group of things which are of the same type or which share similar qualities
15. spirit away - to move someone or something out of or away from a place secretly
16. several - a small number, though more than two or three
17. skiing - a group of sports using skis as primary equipment, usually in the snow.
talent - an unusual natural ability to do something well, especially in artistic areas that can be developed by training
18. white-water rafting - a challenging recreational activity using an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water, usually in different degrees of rough water
19. wildlife - animals, birds, and plants, living in a natural undomesticated state
20. windsurfing - the sport of riding and steering a sailboard