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📕 Part 1: Borrowing Things

Would you ever lend someone your phone? Rory explains why he has no problem doing it, but only after he's done one very important thing first! Listen to find out his hilarious secret for sharing tech.

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📕 Part 1: Borrowing Things
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This episode's vocabulary

Tremendous adj.) - very great in amount, scale, or intensity.

Self-sufficient (adj.) - able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance.

To pose a problem (phrase) - if something poses a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger.

To loan (verb) - end (a sum of money or item of property).

To cope (verb) - to deal successfully with a difficult situation.

Careless (adj.) - not taking or showing enough care and attention.

To purge (verb.) - ;to remove something bad or wrong.

To be through with smth (phrase) - to have finished doing something or using something

Finite (adj.) - limited in size or extent.

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