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📙📙📙📙American English File 4, Second Edition, GRAMMAR 10B, Exercise 1, Pages 98 & 151

🔎 articles

🔎 more rules: geographical names

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🏠 the property ladder

🏡 a series of stages in owning houses in which you buy a small house or apartment first and then buy a bigger or more expensive house when you have enough money:

🏷 House prices are so high now it is hard for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder (= buy their first house)

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ˌself-ˈcentred British English
self-centered American English

adjective

paying so much attention to yourself that you do not notice what is happening to other people

SYN selfish (B1)

❇️ Robert is a self-centered, ambitious, and bigoted man.

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles.
It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

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“Modern technology owes ecology an apology” (Alan M. Eddison).

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tight-fisted

tight-fist‧ed /ˌtaɪt ˈfɪstɪd◂/ adjective informal

not generous with money

SYN stingy

❇️ Don't imagine Gillian'll buy you a drink - she's too tight-fisted.

—tight-fistedness noun [uncountable]

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/tight-fisted

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strong-willed

adjective

knowing exactly what you want to do and being determined to achieve it, even if other people advise you against it

OPP weak-willed

SYN determined

❇️ She was a fiercely independent and strong-willed woman.
❇️ She's very strong-willed and if she's decided to drop out of school, nothing will stop her.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/strong-willed

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