🇬🇧 Glitch meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A glitch is a tiny problem or fault that suddenly makes something not work the way it is supposed to. It’s usually not very serious, but it can be annoying or silly—like when a game freezes for a second, a robot says the wrong word, or a computer screen gets weird colors for a moment. After the glitch is fixed, everything usually goes back to normal.

Because of a glitch in the school bell, it rang every two minutes and the teacher nearly evaporated from confusion.

A glitch in my fitness watch said I ran ten miles, but I was just walking to the fridge.

A glitch in the video game made the villain walk into a wall for five minutes while we laughed and ate snacks.

The scoreboard glitch made it look like I did 4,000 push-ups in gym class, so I’m basically a legend now.

Tiny computer glitches really do happen in real life—one famous glitch once made a space probe shut down just because a single number in its code was wrong!

A child's tablet froze mid drawing because of a tiny glitch. The glitch made the brush jump and the colors mix wrong. The child frowned; another glitch erased a line. The parent tapped the screen, cleared the app, and the last glitch stopped. The child laughed, hugging the tablet and forgiving the glitch.

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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