E198: 🎙️ Welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast with me, your host, Anna! Join us for Week 18, Day 5 of Your English Five a Day, where we dive deep into vocabulary enrichment, providing you with five intriguing words or phrases every weekday.

☠️ Today's journey begins with the noun "mortality". Then we look at the verb "ingest" and the adjective "detrimental". After that, we delve into the adverb "rationally" and finally, we unravel the idiom "pretty much".

🎰 Now, let's weave these words into an intriguing narrative involving John, who has a dark secret lurking beneath the facade: a crippling gambling addiction. As his world crumbles, he faces the detrimental consequences head-on, confronting the harsh reality of mortality.

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