🇬🇧🇪🇸 scavenger - basurero : English Lesson

Meaning of "scavenger" ("basurero"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A scavenger is a person, animal, or creature that searches for food, useful items, or lost treasures. In nature, scavengers eat things left behind, like vultures cleaning up after other animals. In real life, scavengers are also people who collects items that others have thrown away.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My little sister is a scavenger—she takes my old toys and calls them “new.”

I was a scavenger at the beach, collecting the best seashells like a pirate.

Dad is a scavenger at restaurants—he always eats whatever is left on my plate.

The scavenger at our picnic was a sneaky squirrel who stole my cookie.

If you drop a french fry at the park, the pigeons become professional scavengers.

A thin crow hunched on the fence, a lone scavenger eyeing the picnic. A hungry dog, a scavenger in its own way, nosed crumbs under the bench. The child laughed: each scavenger grabbed a scrap, the crow, a scavenger, hopping, the dog wagging. They shared the small feast; nobody wasted, every scavenger content.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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