🇬🇧 Jigsaw puzzle meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A jigsaw puzzle is a picture that has been glued onto cardboard or wood, then cut into many oddly shaped little pieces. Your job is to look carefully at the shapes and the picture and fit all the pieces back together like a big, flat picture-building game. When all the pieces are in the right places, the picture appears again.

I finished the jigsaw puzzle at midnight and whispered, “We did it, cardboard,” like it was my best friend.

The jigsaw puzzle said 100 pieces, but it felt like 1,000 when every single one looked like green grass.

I dropped my jigsaw puzzle and now my floor looks like a tiny cardboard earthquake.

The jigsaw puzzle of a calm ocean made our table look calm while we were screaming, “Where is that last blue piece?”

Some jigsaw puzzles have thousands of pieces, and if you lose just ONE, the whole family will crawl on the floor like detectives searching for the tiniest criminal.

On the kitchen floor, a child and her father spread a jigsaw puzzle across a blanket. The jigsaw puzzle pieces formed a blue sea. A cat nudged a jigsaw puzzle corner; they laughed and searched. Slowly they fit the jigsaw puzzle together, clicking the last piece in place. They cheered at the complete jigsaw puzzle.

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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