Idioms & Collocations
This idiom means extremely expensive
An arm and a leg
This collocation/idiom is used to describe a taste for sugary foods or someone who has a taste for sugary foods.
Sweet tooth
Make-up products like lipstick, eyeliner, etc.
Cosmetics
These words are useful alternatives to the word 'delicious'
(8 possible answers)
Savory Scrumptious Flavorful Tasty Appetizing Mouth-watering Yummy Delectable
(n) A spending/savings plan.
(v) To create a spending/savings plan.
Budget
This idiom means to expand your world view.
Broaden your horizons
The fatigue we feel from a long plane trip, especially one across many time zones.
Jet lag
A private lesson or an online lesson (e.g. on YouTube)
Tutorial
Extremely famous. Representative of a place or culture.
Iconic
(n) Someone or something that provides financial support to another person or organization.
(v) To provide financial support to a person or organization.
Sponsor
A person's weak point
Achilles heel
The challenge we encounter when we go somewhere where the people do not speak our mother tongue.
Language barrier
This word is used to describe the process of farming.
Agriculture
Quite serious (e.g. like a very large, powerful tropical storm, or a terrible injury or disease)
Severe
(n) A use or purpose of something.
(v) To operate or be used in a certain way.
Function
Willingness to question ideas including your own ideas.
Critical thinking
We use this collocation to say we lived our entire life (at least until becoming an adult) in one place.
Born and raised
Our classmates, colleagues or others like us.
Peers
Willing to take initiative rather than waiting to be told what to do.
Proactive
(n) Persuasion. The power to persuade others.
(v) To persuade.
Influence
Extra money you can use however you want after all your bills are paid.
(2 possible answers)
Disposable income
Discretionary income
The challenge of adapting to the sometimes very different lifestyle found in another country.
(Bonus if you happen to know how we refer to the challenge of returning to your own country after finally adapting to the lifestyle in another country)
Culture shock
(Bonus) Reverse culture shock
The trend towards international cooperation in areas like business, education, travel and culture.
Globalization
1) Clear. Obvious. Easy to see.
2) See-through. Basically invisible.
Transparent
(n) The act of using other words to summarize our meaning or someone else's meaning.
(v) To use other words to summarize our meaning or someone else's meaning.
Paraphrase