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your actions
actionYou should take responsibility for your own actions.
actThis was considered to be an act of war.
thingThat’s the last thing you should be doing if you’re pregnant.
activityNot all of her business activities were scrupulously clean.
moveApplying for that job was a good move.
deedTheir evil deeds must not go unpunished.
Coming soon to cinemas near you, "The Amazing Adventures of Robin Hood".
The advertisement glamorized life in the army, emphasizing travel and adventure.
Reading should be an adventure, a personal experience full of surprises.
This book is a thrilling adventure story.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Journeys
break-journey
carpool
carpooling
circumnavigation
commuting
expedition
field trip
grand tour
haul
jaunt
journey
junket
layover
move
odyssey
ride
sail
seafaring
trip
wanderings

adventure | American Dictionary

adventure
noun[ C/U ]
us/ədˈven·tʃər, æd-/
an unusual, exciting, and possibly dangerous activity, trip, or experience, or the excitement produced by such activities:
[ C ]She had some exciting adventures in Peru.
[ U ]Henry is looking for thrills and adventure.

Examples of adventure

adventure
Sensibility is not readily associated with this robust discourse of adventure.
Explorers were much read and talked about and their adventures were re-enacted in lecture halls, theatres, and in all manner of visual entertainments.
Surprising new ideas may spring from such scientific adventure!
In conclusion, the book constitutes an exemplary study for students and researchers who embark on experimental adventures in this domain.
Indeed, these probably became even more prominent once military adventures and border raiding were no longer viable.
Reading the narrative allows the reader to enter a world of adventure that contrasts highly with the cruel world of war.
But in the longer run, economists have also much to gain from this joint adventure.
Objections to boundary crossing occur when notions of purity, cultural significance and context-specificity clash with innovation, exploration and adventure.
When we have learnt to accept ourselves as being old we can see the ageing process for what it is : an adventure.
Companies stifled adventuring traders, suppressed free trade, precluded training mariners, brought superfluous commodities into the realm, and caused inflation.
Support for exporting freedom may be recently waning, given the problems associated with democracy-building adventures around the world.
He combined amateurism, enthusiasm, ignorance, and charisma, always a dangerous mix in any polar adventure.
The journals are full of adventure and document the highs and lows that he encountered while doing anthropological fieldwork.
So the aircrews who flew them and the passengers who rode in them can now follow their adventures from birth to death.
Seasons with the sea-horses; or, sporting adventures in the northern seas.
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exciting adventure
An excitingadventure story and very well told, all this takes up about two-fifths of the text.
graphic adventure
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