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pepper

US /ˈpɛpɚ/

noun Advanced · C1 Ăn uống

Definition

climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam

Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.

Examples

Please add a little salt and pepper to the soup.

Word Family

NounNoun
pepper gốc
VerbVerb
pepper gốc
AdjectiveAdj
peppery
AdverbAdv
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Collocations

  • Easy salt and black pepper
    to salt and black pepper, meaning to add salt to
  • Medium slice sweet bell peppers
    to slice sweet bell peppers, meaning to make a clean cut through
  • Hard pepper questions throughout the presentation
    to pepper questions throughout the presentation, meaning to add pepper to
  • Very Hard speech peppered with biting sarcasm
    describing speech peppered with biting sarcasm (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)

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