🇬🇧 Obstruction meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

An obstruction is anything that gets in the way and blocks you from moving or doing something, like a roadblock, a giant mess, or even a stubborn cat sitting on your homework.

My plan to clean my room had one big obstruction: I couldn’t even open the door because of the toy avalanche.

The teacher said there was an obstruction in our learning today—everyone’s brains were still asleep.

The biggest obstruction to my morning routine is my blanket, which refuses to let me escape its cozy trap.

Our soccer game stopped because of an obstruction on the field: a goose that refused to move until it got a snack.

I tried to throw away my broccoli, but Mom’s laser eyes became a powerful obstruction to my sneaky plan.

A child pushed a wagon but a heavy branch lay across the path — an obstruction. The obstruction looked huge. She tried to lift the obstruction; the wagon stuck. She pushed, the small wheel hit the second obstruction, and she cried. A passerby moved the obstruction easily, the wagon rolled free, and the child laughed, relieved.

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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