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📕 Part 1: Home

Ever felt 'packed like sardines'? Rory vividly describes his massive new apartment, but reveals the one major downside that forces him to wake up at 5:30 AM every day. What's the trade-off worth?

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📕 Part 1: Home
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Housing and AccommodationShowing Both SidesSelf-CorrectionComplex SentencesComparing ThingsIdiomsDescriptive Language

This episode's vocabulary

Vividly (adverb) - in a way that is very clear, powerful, and detailed in your mind:

I vividly remember my first day at school.

Spacious (adj.) - large and with a lot of space: a spacious house/living room.

Well-equipped (adj.) - having the necessary tools, clothes, equipment, etc.

Massive (adj.) - very large in size, amount, or number.

The skyline (noun.) - a shape or pattern made against the sky, especially by buildings

A cluster of  - a group of similar things that are close together, sometimes surrounding something: Have a look at the cluster of galaxies in this photograph.

At/on short notice  - only a short time before something happens: I can't cancel my plans at such short notice.

Waistline (noun.) - an imaginary line going round the narrowest part of your waist.

Packed/squashed like sardines (idiom) -  if people are packed or squashed like sardines, they are positioned very close together so that they cannot move: We were squashed like sardines in the rush-hour train.

Luxurious (adj.) - very comfortable and expensive: They have a very luxurious house.

Get the bus to work (collocation) - travel by bus to work.

The décor (noun.) - the colour, style, and arrangement of the objects in a room.

Inclination (noun.) - a feeling that you want to do a particular thing, or the fact that you prefer or are more likely to do a particular thing: My own inclination would be to look for another job.

Interior design (noun.) -  the art of planning the decoration of the inside of a building such as a house or office.

The seafront (noun phrase) - the part of a town on the coast next to the beach, often with a road along it and a row of houses and shops facing the sea: We rented a house on the seafront for the summer.

Packages (noun.) - an object or set of objects wrapped in paper, usually in order to be sent by post