The key answer of exercise 2
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7 - Excess for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education
Question
Work in pairs and discuss the meaning of the underlined words and phrases below.
Answer
- extravagant = spending or costing a lot of money, especially more than in necessary or more than you can actually afford
- excessive = much more than is reasonable or necessary
- luxury = something expensive that you do not need but you buy for pleasure and enjoyment
- extra-large = very large
- spoilt = when someone (usually a child) is rude and behaves badly because they have always been given what they want and been allowed to do what they want
- overpriced = when something is more expensive than it should be
- far-fetched = extremely unlikely to be true or to happen
- spending spree = a short period of time when you do a lot of spending
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