🇬🇧 Extreme meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

An extreme is something that is totally different or opposite from something else. If one thing is very cold and another is very hot, those are two extremes. It’s like having one end that is “all the way this way” and another end that is “all the way that way,” with normal stuff in the middle.

In our house, one extreme is Mom’s super healthy salad, and the other extreme is Dad’s triple‑chocolate breakfast pizza.

Our dog’s mood has two extremes: napping like a potato or zooming around the house like a furry tornado.

My hair has two extremes: perfectly brushed or looking like it fought with a thunderstorm and lost.

During the math test, my brain swung between the extremes of “I am a genius” and “what is 2 plus 2 again?”

My baby cousin’s volume has extremes: silent angel or alarm clock that never runs out of batteries.

On the ridge, she saw two extremes: to her left the extreme of summer, golden grass; to her right the extreme of winter, black ice. The wind pushed toward each extreme. She stepped toward the summer extreme and smiled, leaving the winter extreme behind as the ridge warmed and her fear eased.

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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