🇬🇧🇪🇸 wilderness - desierto : English Lesson

Meaning of "wilderness" ("desierto"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

The “wilderness” is an area of land that is mostly untouched by humans, filled with forests, mountains, rivers, and wild animals. It’s a place where nature rules, and people have to survive without grocery stores, comfy beds, or phone chargers.

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

I tried to build a fire in the wilderness… now I’m just a cold, hungry person with two sticks.

If you scream in the wilderness and no one hears it, are you still dramatic?

My survival skills in the wilderness are so bad, even squirrels are laughing at me.

They said, “Enjoy the peace of the wilderness!” but all I heard were mosquitos plotting against me.

I went camping in the wilderness and realized I’m very attached to indoor plumbing.

She slipped into the wilderness, boots sinking in wet leaves. The wilderness offered a rush of cold river and bright birds; the wilderness hid a fox and a broken trail. At night the wilderness wrapped her in stars, then morning showed a small cabin. She stepped out of the wilderness smiling, relief soft on her face.

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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