🇬🇧 Arid meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Arid means very, very dry. An arid place hardly gets any rain, so the ground is dusty, plants struggle to grow, and it can feel hot and empty. Deserts are a good example of arid places, because they don’t get enough water for most plants to live.

Our class plant looked at the arid soil and started writing a will.

The air in the car was so arid we joked that raisins come here to get extra wrinkly.

The playground became so arid that when I fell down, a tiny dust storm cheered for me.

The planet in the movie was so arid that the aliens had swimming pools full of sand instead of water.

Deserts are some of the most arid places on Earth, and in some of them it can stay dry for years.

On an arid street under an arid sky, a boy knelt by arid soil and spotted a dry seed. The arid wind blew dust over his hands. He spilled one careful cup of water; the arid ground drank it like a thirsty mouth. A tiny green tip rose. He laughed, wiping dirt from his smile.

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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