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This document provides a list of vocabulary words associated with travel and adventure, including verbs like accompany, encounter, overcome, and venture and nouns like challenge, destination, and journey. It also includes adjectives to describe experiences, such as dreary, intense, pivotal, profound, and valuable.

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Adventure

This document provides a list of vocabulary words associated with travel and adventure, including verbs like accompany, encounter, overcome, and venture and nouns like challenge, destination, and journey. It also includes adjectives to describe experiences, such as dreary, intense, pivotal, profound, and valuable.

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priceless ADVENTURE

 
 
 
Vocabulary
Verbs associated with travel and
adventure:
         accompany (accompanies, accompanying,  accompanied)
VERB If you accompany someone, you go somewhere with
them. [FORMAL] ■ Ken agreed to accompany me on a trip to Africa. ■ The
Prime Minister, accompanied by the governor, led the President up to the
house.
         encounter (encounters, encountering, encountered)
VERB If you encounter problems or difficulties, you experience them. ■ Everyday of
our lives we encounter stresses of one kind or another. • Environmental
problems they found in Poland were among the worst they encountered.
         overcome (overcomes, overcoming, overcame)
VERB If you overcome a problem or a feeling, you successfully deal with it and control
it.   ■ Molly had fought and overcome her fear of flying. ■ One way of
helping children to overcome shyness is to boost their self-confidence.
         reschedule (reschedules, rescheduling, rescheduled)
VERB If someone reschedules an event, they change the time at which it is supposed to
happen. ■ Since I'll be away, I'd like to reschedule the meeting. ■ [+ for]
They've rescheduled the opening for February 14th.
         seek (seeks, seeking, sought)
VERB If you seek something, you try to find it or obtain it. [FORMAL] ■ Four
people who sought refuge in the Italian embassy have left voluntarily. ■
[+ for] Candidates are urgently sought for the post of Conservative
Party chairman. • Always seek professional legal advice before entering
into any agreement. ■ [+ from] The couple have sought help from marriage
guidance counsellors.
         venture (ventures, venturing, ventured)
VERB If you venture somewhere, you go somewhere that might be dangerous.
[LITERARY] ■ People are afraid to venture out for fear of sniper attacks.
 
Nouns associated with travel and adventure:
         challenge (challenges)
NOUN A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and
determination. ■ I like a big challenge and they don’t come much bigger than
this. ■ The new government’s first challenge is the economy.
         destination (destinations)
NOUN The destination of someone or something is the place to which they are going or
being sent. ■ Spain is still our most popular holiday destination. ■ Only half
of the emergency supplies have reached their destination.
         itinerary (itineraries)
NOUN An itinerary is a plan of a journey, including the route and the places that you
will visit. ■ The next place on our itinerary was Silistra.
         journey (journeys)
NOUN When you make a journey, you travel from one place to another. ■
[ + to ] There is an express service from Paris which completes the journey
to Bordeaux in under 4 hours.
 
Adjectives to describe experiences:
         dreary
ADJECTIVE If you describe something as dreary, you mean that it is dull and depressing.  a
dreary little town in the Midwest.
         intense
ADJECTIVE Intense is used to describe something that is very great or extreme in strength
or degree. ■ He was sweating from the intense heat. ■ His threats become
more intense, agitated, and frequent.
         pivotal
ADJECTIVE A pivotal role, point, or figure in something is one that is very important and
affects the success of that thing. ■ The Court of Appeal has a pivotal role in the
English legal system. ■ The elections may prove to be pivotal in
Colombia's political history.
         profound
ADJECTIVE You use profound to emphasize that something is very great or intense.            
■ discoveries which had a profound effect on many areas of
medicine ■ The overwhelming
feeling is just deep, profound shock and anger. ■ Anna's patriotism was profound.
         valuable
ADJECTIVE If you describe something or someone as valuable, you mean that they are very
useful and helpful. ■ Many of our teachers also have valuable academic
links with Heidelberg University. • The experience was very valuable.

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