🇬🇧🇪🇸 aberration - anomalía : English Lesson

Meaning of "aberration" ("anomalía"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

An aberration is when something happens that is strange or different from what usually happens, and it doesn’t last. It’s like when your very quiet teacher suddenly tells jokes all day, or when your always-messy room is magically clean for one day. That odd, not-normal change is called an aberration.

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The principal’s smile was such an aberration that everyone checked to see if it was opposite day.

The weather’s sunny aberration lasted exactly long enough for us to forget our umbrellas at home.

The teacher said my quiet behavior was an aberration and asked who had replaced me with a clone.

My neat handwriting on yesterday’s homework was clearly an aberration, not a new habit.

It was an exciting aberration when I cleaned my room without being told; scientists are still debating if it really happened or if it was a glitch in the universe.

In the quiet garden a red apple grew on a white rosebush. The child gasped: an aberration, an aberration! Neighbors came, murmured about the aberration, touched it as proof and smiled at the odd aberration. The child picked the odd fruit, kept it, and called the small aberration a lucky charm. Everyone felt warm.

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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