🇬🇧 Yolk meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

The yolk is the bright yellow, round part in the middle of an egg. It is thick and soft, and it holds lots of nutrients that help baby chicks grow and give people energy when we eat it in foods like scrambled eggs, cakes, and sauces.

I drew a smiley face on the yolk with ketchup, and now my breakfast looks happier than I do on Mondays.

When Dad tried to juggle eggs, each yolk became a modern art painting on the floor.

Mom separated the yolk from the white so fast the egg probably didn’t even know it had been cracked.

When I cracked the egg, the yolk stared up at me like a tiny, surprised yellow eyeball.

Yolk has most of the egg’s vitamins and fat—so that tiny yellow ball is actually the egg’s power core!

On the farm, a child cracked an egg. The shell fell away and a round yolk sat in the bowl, the yolk bright and warm. She touched the yolk, felt it wobble, and smiled. She dropped the yolk into the pan; the yolk spread gold and the house smelled like breakfast. She laughed and tasted a spoonful.

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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