This episode’s vocabulary
Diverse
adj. — including many different types of people or things.
Varied
adj. — containing or changing between several different things or types.
A contribution/ make a contribution
noun/collocation — something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make something successful.
Rugged
adj. — (of land) wild and not even; not easy to travel over; strong and simple; not delicate.
Westernmost
adj. — furthest towards the west of an area.
A trait
noun — a particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behaviour.
A coastline
noun — the particular shape of the coast, especially as seen from above, from the sea, or on a map:
Hospitality industry
collocation — is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and drink service, event planning, theme parks, and transportation. It includes hotels, restaurants and bars.
Mainstay
noun — the most important part of something, providing support for everything else.
Kilts
noun — a skirt with many folds, made from tartan cloth and traditionally worn by Scottish men and boys:
Haggis
noun — a dish from Scotland consisting of different sheep's organs cut up with onions and spices and cooked inside a sheep's stomach:
Prosperous
adj. — successful, usually by earning a lot of money.
Strike a balance between
idiom — if you strike a balance between two things, you accept parts of both things in order to satisfy some of the demands of both sides in an argument, rather than all the demands of just one side.
A downside of
noun — a disadvantage of a situation.
Detrimental
adj. — causing harm or damage; These chemicals have a detrimental effect/impact on the environment.
