Test your vocabulary knowledge about food and drinks.
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ANSWERS:
fizzy drink - a sweet drink without alcohol that has bubbles
pick at food - to eat only small amounts of a meal because you do not feel hungry
on the house - given to you free in a restaurant, hotel, pub, or club
famished - very hungry; ravenous
canned food - food preserved in a metal container e.g. canned beans
OTHER PHRASES:
squeezed- pressed
bubbly - full of bubbles
fuzzy - not clear, you cant see detains e.g. a fuzzy picture
off-colour - feeling slightly ill
to grab sth - to take hold of something roughly; catch, seize
complimentary - given to you for free, e.g. a complimentary bottle of champagne
raw food - raw food has not been cooked
frozen food - food preserved by being made extremely cold
GRAMMAR REFERENCE:
gradable and non-gradable adjectives
I'm absolutely starving.
I'm absolutely famished.
BUT:
I'm very hungry.
You can say:
with gradable adjectives (which can be made stronger or weaker):
very tasty food
extremely tasty food
terribly tasty food
pretty tasty food
quite tasty food
fairly tasty food
slightly tasty food
a bit tasty food
with non-gradable adjectives
(which CANNOT be made stronger or weaker, as they have extreme meaning):
very delicious food
absolutely delicious food
completely delicious food
utterly delicious food
totally delicious food
practically tasteless food
almost tasteless food
nearly tasteless food
In a very informal language,
with both gradable and non-gradable adjectives:
The ride was dead scary. (UK) (dead=very)
Scrambled eggs are dead easy to prepare. (UK)
The car was real expensive. (US)
My head hurts real bad. (US)
It's really tasty meal.
It's really delicious meal.
For more information on gradable and non-gradable adjectives check in a grammar reference book of your choice or book a private online lesson to get the explanation from professionals.