🇬🇧 Cloak meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A cloak is a long, loose piece of clothing you wear over your shoulders and body, kind of like a big blanket or superhero cape, usually without sleeves, that you can wrap around yourself to stay warm or to look mysterious.

The wizard’s cloak was covered in stars, moons, and one suspicious ketchup stain.

The wind tried to blow my cloak dramatically, but it only flipped up and smacked me in the face.

I put on my cloak to look mysterious, but it got stuck in the door and I just looked silly instead.

I wore a cloak to school and the teacher said, “Nice outfit,” so now I’m legally a classroom wizard.

In old times, people wore cloaks instead of coats, which sounds cool until you remember they had no zippers and lots of accidental tripping.

She draped a heavy cloak over her shoulders. The cloak brushed her knees and kept the rain off. The cloak hid a tattered dress and smelled of cedar from the old chest. At the village edge she pulled the cloak tight. The cloak caught the wind; she stood taller and smiled.

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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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