🇬🇧 Oil meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Oil is a smooth, slippery liquid that can come from plants, like olives or sunflowers, or from animals. People often pour oil into a pan to cook food so it doesn’t stick and burn. Oil can make food crispy, like french fries, and helps heat spread evenly. It feels greasy to touch, shines a little, and is thicker than water. We don’t drink cooking oil by itself, but we use it to help make tasty foods.

My potato slice did a backflip in the hot oil and came out as a super-crispy fry.

The chicken nugget took a deep breath, jumped into the hot oil, and came back golden and delicious like it went on vacation.

My brother tried juggling bottles of cooking oil and invented the sport of indoor sliding instead.

The broccoli got fried in a little oil and suddenly pretended to be junk food so I would eat it.

Some cooking oils come from tiny seeds like sunflowers—so when you eat fries, a sunflower might secretly be helping them taste good.

Anna pours oil into a pan. The oil moves slow and wet. She puts bread and egg in the hot pan. The egg does not stick because of the oil. A drop of oil falls on the floor and the dog slips on the oil. Anna laughs and cleans the oil, then eats her warm egg.

This word is at the A2 level, which means it’s useful for simple, everyday situations. You might use it when shopping, traveling, or talking about your hobbies. Words at this level help you build confidence in practical, routine conversations.

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