🇬🇧 Abyss meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

An abyss is a very deep, dark, and seemingly endless space or hole, like a giant pit or empty blackness where you can’t see the bottom and it feels like it goes on forever.

My little brother’s mouth is an abyss that magically makes pizza vanish in seconds.

My video game has an endless pit called the Abyss of Doom, but I mostly use it to dramatically fall off while yelling, "BYE!"

My imagination is an abyss of weird ideas, like spaghetti-flavored ice cream and flying llamas.

Dad said his email inbox is an abyss of unread messages and coupons he never asked for.

The teacher’s trash can is an abyss where all the crumpled math mistakes go to hide in shame.

She stood at the cliff, staring into the abyss, a black mouth that swallowed light. Wind tugged her coat; she smelled the abyss and leaned and saw a rope and jagged rock far down, another abyss of shadows. A gull cried above the abyss. She threw a pebble; it fell silent into the abyss. She stepped back, trembling, then laughed.

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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