| rewarding | gives you a lot of positive expiriences |
| fruitful | produces good results |
| lucrative | makes a lot of money |
| therapeutic | makes you healthy in body and soul |
| relaxing/calming | reduces stress, gives a peaceful feeling |
| culture vulture | big fan of anything cultural |
| couch potato | physically very inactive person |
| dabbler | person who never keep doing an activity for a long time |
| doer | person who believes in acting and doing things, not thinking |
| be into sth | be very interested in |
| went off sth | lost interest in sth |
| lock one's self away | isolates from the world |
| be hooked on | be addicted to sth |
| get up | do |
| leisure | free time |
| split | divided equally |
| labour-saving | makes sth works faster or better |
| full diary | lot of commitments |
| time-consuming | takes a long time to do |
| left | abandoned |
| chiselled | sculptured |
| tramp | visit |
| treasured | revered |
| swell | intensify |
| whirring | noise |
| reveal | show |
| conclusion | reach a decision |
| major | serious |
| barely | hardly |
| remote | distant and far away |
| privillaged | having special rights and adventages |
| incredible | unbelievable |
| conquered | defeated and controlled |
| select | choose |
| exquisite | extremely beautiful or delicate |
| acknowledged | admit, accept |
| preoccupied | thinking or worrying about something too much |
| crop up | appear |
| nagging | disturbing |
| under way | happening now |
| persist | to try to do or continue doing something in a determined but often unreasonable way |
| envisage | to imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good |