🇬🇧 Puma meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A puma is a big wild cat with a long tail that lives in the mountains, forests, and rocky places of North and South America. It usually has brown or tan fur, can jump very far, and is an excellent hunter. Pumas are also called mountain lions, cougars, or panthers, but they are all the same animal. They are shy and usually stay far away from people.

I tried to roar like a puma, but it sounded more like a confused vacuum cleaner.

At the zoo, the puma yawned so wide I could almost see what it had for breakfast.

The puma watched campers making lunch and thought, "Look, the snacks are getting snacks ready."

My alarm clock is loud, but a puma jumping on my bed would definitely wake me up faster.

One puma can jump so far—up to about 6 meters high and 13 meters long—that it’s basically the long-jump champion of the cat world.

A puma crossed the narrow trail, thick shoulders moving like a small lynx but huge; the hikers froze. The puma looked at them, low growl, then padded away into pine shadows. One hiker whispered, "A puma!" Heart racing, they watched the puma vanish. They breathed, relieved to have seen the wild puma and lived.

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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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