The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.3 - It's a dog's life for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education
Question
Look at the sentences below. What is the difference in meaning between the underlined words?
Work in pairs and work out the meaning of the underlined words.
Answer
a)
a necessity = something you need
a luxury = something pleasant that you like but do not need
b)
completely extravagant
high-quality food
very expensive, luxurious
allowed to behave exactly as he or she wants and given everything he or she asks for
allow yourself (or someone else) to do something for pleasure
treat yourself well
to be very generous and kind towards someone
paid for something nice / special for somebody else