Question

Vocabulary

Teens and consumerism

Fill in the gaps with words / expressions from the list below:

Some people spend ………. spending. Their wardrobe …………. of clothes they never …………. . Others splash out …………… they can’t afford. It’s a problem that was already ……………. as a mental disease in America. It is probably …………. we do the same here.
Occasionally all of us have already bought something that we ………….., a pair of shoes that didn’t ………………, a T-shirt that ……………….. so good …………. of the shop and so on. These are usually ……………….., but for some people shopping can become a ……………….., an addiction as powerful as any other ………….. In the beginning they go shopping because they feel …………….. and they hope …………….. themselves up by buying some extra. Then it will become as …………….. as any other drug. The depression and anxiety will ……………. as people become ………………. in a downward spiral of debt and …………... And the more depressed the bigger the need of going shopping; people go shopping as others drink alcohol or use any other drugs. They look for self-…………. but can only find emptiness.
Yet, is it fair to consider it a disease? Shouldn’t we resist the …………. to classifying every human ………….. as a psychiatric condition? Nobody is forced to buy what they don’t ………….. Why should the …………….. support addictions? People can quite well help …………… by cutting the …………… of their own credit cards.

Palavras pra encaixar no lugar

recognized - themselves - weakness - drugs - trapped - out - is full - wear - for the sake of - cheer - misjudgments - didn’t look - didn’t need - satisfaction - time - tendency - on things - compulsion - low - need - credit - increase - quite fit - despair - taxpayers - compulsive

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