Learning while laughing wiht the Ed Stein's comic strip

Self-defeating= contraproducente
self-defeating    
    self-defeating
A plan or action that is self-defeating is likely to cause problems or difficulties instead of producing useful results.
   Dishonesty is ultimately self-defeating.
   ...self-defeating patterns of thought and behavior.
ADJ-GRADED

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Striving= esfuerzos /el esforzarse
strive    
    strive   strives   striving
If you strive to do something or strive for something, you make a great effort to do it or get it.
   He strives hard to keep himself very fit.
   She strove to read the name on the stone pillar.
   Mr Annan said the region must now strive for economic development as well as peace.
VB  The past tense is either strove or strived, and the past participle is either striven or strived
= labour, struggle
    · striving   strivings
   ...a politician consumed by his own passionate striving for leadership.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

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