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I can’t imagine a more delightful afternoon than one spent strolling the ramparts of Tossa de Mar. 🩵 🚶‍♀️STROLL = to walk somewhere in a slow, relaxed way 🏰 RAMPARTS = high, wide walls of stone or earth with a path on top, built around a castle, town, etc. to defend it #ingles

Goodness gracious! They sure do sell some risqué souvenirs! 😳 GOODNESS GRACIOUS = a cute and slightly old-fashioned way to express surprise 🌶️ RISQUÉ = sexual in nature and slightly shocking (you can tell a risqué joke, see a risqué performance, etc.) #inglés #vocabulary

This is the problem with having advanced students! You stole my follow-up post, @Jayfromthesky! 😂 I’m so proud of you! 👏👏👏 🇺🇸 GRUELING 🇬🇧 GRUELLING = very difficult and making you very tired, needing great effort for a long time #LearnEnglish #Vocabulary

My lunch today—oatmeal with chia seeds—was tasty, but it looked like gruel! 🥣 GRUEL = a cheap simple food made, especially in the past, by boiling oats with water or milk (This word has a connotation of the food being unpleasant—almost like it’s a punishment to eat it.) #ESL

When we arrived at Itzurun, I must have stood there gawking at the view for at least an hour. GAWK AT = to look at something or someone in a stupid or rude way (Here, I was so surprised by the beauty of the view that it paralyzed me— I just stood there staring like an idiot!)

Thanks for voting, Steppers! ❤️ 58% of you knew the right answer. I love LAZING about in bed with Adri on Sunday mornings. It’s the best!

🤔VOCAB QUIZ 🤔 We looked over these ceramic _____________ to see if we could use any for our mosaic. a) wicks b) shards c) decanters d) whiskers #Vocabulary #English #እንግሊዝኛ

Woohoo! @DazzleEnglish just taught me a fun British expression! 😍🤭 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said… Thank you, Suzanne! #EnglishLanguage

Thanks for voting, Steppers! 65% of you got this right. 👉 HUNK = an #English slang word that affectionately refers to an attractive man Another #slang word for this is STUD (literally a male horse used to impregnate female horses) 🐴😎 And my favorite… STUD MUFFIN 🤭

The final portion of the drive to the Grutas de Tolantongo is quite an adventure! You have to zigzag down the side of a mountain! We loved it. ZIGZAG (+ adverb/preposition) = to move forward by making sharp sudden turns first to the left and then to the right #Vocab #Inglés

This is a great #vocab word! You’ll hear it in conversations amongst adults as reassurance that it’s okay to let the kids keep playing like that: 😬: Do you think we ought to split them up? Someone’s going to wind up in the hospital! 😘: Aw, come on. They’re just roughhousing!