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The document provides definitions for various types of journeys and travel-related terms. It defines over 50 words related to journeys, including circuit, commute, crossing, cruise, day trip, drive, excursion, expedition, exploration, flight, foray, grand tour, guided tour, hajj, hop, jaunt, journey, junket, mercy mission, milk round, mystery tour, odyssey, outing, overnighter, passage, peregrination, pilgrimage, red-eye, ride, road trip, round trip, row, run, sally, schlep, school run, sortie, space flight, spin, swing, test drive, tour, trip,

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1 Aiming High

The document provides definitions for various types of journeys and travel-related terms. It defines over 50 words related to journeys, including circuit, commute, crossing, cruise, day trip, drive, excursion, expedition, exploration, flight, foray, grand tour, guided tour, hajj, hop, jaunt, journey, junket, mercy mission, milk round, mystery tour, odyssey, outing, overnighter, passage, peregrination, pilgrimage, red-eye, ride, road trip, round trip, row, run, sally, schlep, school run, sortie, space flight, spin, swing, test drive, tour, trip,

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WORKBOOK PAGE 5/ 1 AIMING HIGH

CAE PART 4/ READING / MULTIPLE MATCHING.

L2 Remarkable /rɪˈmɑː(r)kəb(ə)l/

unusual in a way that surprises or impresses you


The play has been a remarkable success.
Her mother made a remarkable recovery.
a remarkable achievement/feat/performance
remarkable that:
It’s remarkable that no one has complained about this system before.
remarkable about:
There’s nothing particularly remarkable about the film.
remarkable for:
The standard of craftsmanship is remarkable for bronze work of this date.

L5 amateur /ˈæmətə(r)/

L9 tour /tʊə(r)/

L 11 peer /pɪə(r)/ someone who belongs to the same social or professional group as another
person

Journeys

Circuit /’sɜ:r)kɪt/ a journey all the way around the edge of something

commute /kə’mju:t/ the journey to and from work every day

crossing /’krɒsɪŋ/ a journey by boat across a river or sea

cruise /kru:z/a journey on a ship for pleasure, especially one that involves visiting a
series of places
day trip
a journey that you make for pleasure in which you go to a place and come back on
the same day

drive /draɪv/ a journey in a car

excursion /ɪk’skɜ:(r)ʃ(ə)n/ a short journey that you take for pleasure

expedition /,ekspə’dɪʃ(ə)n/ a long journey organized for a particular purpose,


especially to a dangerous or distant place

expedition /,ekspə’dɪʃ(ə)n/a short journey somewhere, especially for pleasure

exploration /,eksplə’reɪʃ(ə)n/a journey to a place to learn about it or to search for


something valuable such as oil

flight /flaɪt/ a journey through air or space in a vehicle such as a plane

foray /’fɒreɪ/ a short journey

the grand tour /tʊə(r)/ a journey to the most important cities in Europe that young
men from rich families made in the past

guided tour /tʊə(r)/ a short journey around a building or place with a person who
tells you about what you are seeing or with a pair of headphones on which you can
listen to a recorded description of what you are seeing

hajj /hædʒ/ a journey to the holy city of Mecca that Muslims make as a religious
duty

hop /hɒp/a short journey

jaunt /dʒɔ:nt/ a short journey that you take for fun

journey /’dʒɜ:(r)ni/ an occasion when you travel from one place to another,
especially when there is a long distance between the places

junket /’dʒʌŋkɪt/ a journey or meeting that people say is for business but is really
for pleasure

mercy mission a journey that is made to help someone who is in danger or is


having serious problems

milk round a regular journey that someone makes in order to deliver milk to
people’s homes

milk run a regular journey during which nothing unusual happens, especially by
plane
milk run a plane or train journey with stops at many places

mystery tour a short journey, usually in a bus, that people make for pleasure
without knowing where they are going

odyssey /’ɒdəsi/ a long journey during which many things happen

outing /’aʊtɪŋ/ a short journey that you take for enjoyment

overnighter /,əʊvə(r)’naɪtə(r)/ a journey lasting one night

passage /’pæsɪdʒ/ a journey or a ticket for a journey by ship to a place

peregrination /,perəɡrɪ’neɪʃ(ə)n/ a long journey

pilgrimage /’pɪlɡrɪmɪdʒ/ a journey that a religious person makes to a holy place

red-eye a journey in a plane that flies late at night

ride /raɪd/ a journey on a horse or other animal, on a bicycle or motorcycle, or in a


vehicle

ride /raɪd/ a free journey that you are given in someone’s vehicle. The usual British
word is lift

road trip a long journey in a car

round trip a journey to a place and back again

row /rəʊ/ a short journey in a rowing boat

run /rʌn/ a journey that a train, ship etc does regularly

run /rʌn/ a short journey that you do in a car for pleasure

sally /’sæli/a journey, especially one with a definite purpose

schlep /ʃlep/ a long and difficult journey

the school run the journey by car to school each morning and back home each
afternoon

sortie /’sɔ:(r)ti/ a short journey away from a place

space flight a journey into space

spin /spɪn/ a short journey for pleasure in a car


swing /swɪŋ/ a quick journey through an area in which you make short visits to
several places

test drive a short journey in which you drive a car to decide whether you want to
buy it

tour /tʊə(r)/ a journey in which you visit several places for pleasure

tour /tʊə(r)/ a journey in which a person or group visits several different places in
order to play or perform

tour /tʊə(r)/ a short journey around a building or place in order to see what is there

tour /tʊə(r)/ a journey in which a politician or leader visits several places as a


representative of their country or in order to get support

trip /trɪp/ an occasion when you go somewhere and come back again

voyage /’vɔɪɪdʒ/ a long journey, especially by boat or into space

walkabout /’wɔ:kə,baʊt/ a long journey made through the Australian outback


(=areas that are far from cities or towns and are not used for growing crops) by
aborigines for religious and cultural reasons

wanderings /’wɒnd(ə)rɪŋz/ journeys in which you go from place to place without


staying anywhere very long

whistle-stop tour an occasion when you visit a lot of places in a short period of
time

circumnavigation /,sɜ:(r)kəm’nævɪ,ɡeɪt/ to sail or fly completely around


something, especially the world or an
islandtosailorflycompletelyaroundsomethingespeciallytheworldoranisland

island-hopping to travel from island to island within the same group of


islands, especially as part of a
holidaytotravelfromislandtoislandwithinthesamegroupofislandsespeciallyaspartofah
oliday

someone’s travels /’træv(ə)l/ a series of journeys that someone makes to different


places

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