Finding Comfort in Euphemisms

This is an interesting listening about Euphemisms retrieved from VOA English. 

BTW 1. What are euphemisms?

2. What does the expression Feral pig depredation in process mean? 

3. Can you associate these common words with their familiar meaning? You can drop your answers in the "comentarios"

1. going canoeing                            a. private parts

2. consumption                                b. leverage

3. junk                                            c. 'assets,' 'liquid assets'

4. bear                                           d. the brown one

5. money                                        e. US: first rate [best quality] UK, pornography

6. borrowing against their homes      f. tuberculosis

7. 'borrow' money                            g. having sex

8. top shelf                                     h. second mortgages

                                       

Feral: existing in a wild state, especially describing an animal that was previously kept by people, feral dogs/cats

Chaperon: (especially in the past) an older person, especially a woman, who goes with and takes care of a younger woman who is not married when she is in public

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