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chocolate

US /ˈtʃɔklət/

noun Target · B2 Ăn uống

Definition

a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.

Examples

For dessert, she ordered a slice of chocolate cake and a coffee.

Collocations

  • Easy unwrap a sweet dark chocolate bar
    to unwrap a sweet dark chocolate bar, meaning to remove the outer cover or wrapping of
  • Medium order hot chocolate with whipped cream
    to order hot chocolate with whipped cream, meaning to give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
  • Hard artisanal single-origin chocolate confectionery production
    a collocation phrase: artisanal single-origin chocolate confectionery production
  • Very Hard as useless as a chocolate teapot in practice
    describing as useless as a chocolate teapot in practice (a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar)

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