VOA News - There's a New Kind of Party Girl in America

   "door-to-door"

   "get-togethers"

   "swap"

   "host"

   "lingerie"

   "gadget"

   "stun"

   "o subdue"

   "t"

   "send forth"

   "jolt"

   "eager"

   "gown"

   "pockets"

   "metallic"

   "zapped"

   "positively"

  Background:Most Americans know about (and many own) Tupperware,
  which are small plastic containers like the ones you see in the
  photograph here. I remember my mother going to Tupperware parties
  at her friends' houses back in the 1960s and 1970s. (I never
  went to one myself.) They were a very popular way of selling
  things for the company. They have become less popular in the past
  20 years as more women have moved into jobs outside the home,
  but I guess they are still around (still exist). As the article
  states, there have recently been other types of "parties" to sell
  things to women, including taser guns. Many Americans think that
  they need to protect themselves, especially in big cities, and
  since we have an (unfortunate) culture of guns in the US, this is
  the next logical step

  ESLPod.com's Vocabulary Helperdoor-to-door = when someone walks
  to each house to sell something or give information to people
  about somethingget-togethers = meetings, parties, gatheringsto
  swap = to exchange, to give something to someone who gives you
  something elsehost = the person who lives at the house where the
  party is heldlingerie = underwear that women wear to look more
  sexy (well, that's what I am told...)gadget = device, usually a
  mechanical or electrical machinestun = to shock, to make someone
  suddenly unable to move or think; stun guns send out an electric
  charge that is very painful and "stuns" youto subdue = to control
  someone by violence or forceto send forth = to discharge, to
  shootjolt = powerful force that is painful, like when someone
  pushes youeager = willing, very interested in doing somethinggown
  = a dressto pocket = to keep money, to earn moneymetallic = made
  of metalzapped = to get hit by an electric chargepositively =
  very, completely
 
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