🇬🇧 Peppermint meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Peppermint is a small, hard candy that you suck instead of chew. It is usually white, sometimes with red stripes, and it tastes very cool and minty, like a tiny snowstorm in your mouth. People often eat peppermint after meals to make their breath smell nice, or at holidays because it feels fresh and tingly on the tongue.

I dropped a peppermint in my water and invented very disappointing mint soup.

I told my friend the peppermint was a tiny snowball and he bravely volunteered his mouth as a test site.

I sucked on a peppermint during math and my brain felt so cold it forgot 2 + 2 for a minute.

The peppermint in my pocket melted into a sticky mint puddle that smelled like fresh disaster.

Real peppermint flavor comes from the peppermint plant, so when you eat a peppermint, you’re basically licking a very organized mint leaf that went to candy school.

At the bus stop, Tom opened a tin and offered a peppermint. The peppermint was white with green stripes. He tapped another peppermint onto the bench and handed one more. She popped a peppermint into her mouth, eyes widening at the cool mint, then laughed and tucked the last peppermint into her coat pocket.

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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