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Word List: Dessert
- dessert, desserts [dɪˈzɜːt]
(noun) - Definition:
- a sweet confection served as the last course of a meal
- Example:
- How about ice cream for dessert?
- cake, cakes [keɪk]
(noun) - Definition:
- a rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven
- Example:
- Do you like chocolate cake?
- piece of cake
(Chunk) - Example:
- I'd like a piece of cake, please, not a fruit salad.
- fruit salad, fruit salads
(noun) - Definition:
- a mixture of freshly cut fruit in a light fruit juice, sometimes with the addition of some alcohol, served as a dessert
- Example:
- Today you can choose between ice cream or a fruit salad.
- biscuit, biscuits [ˈbɪskɪt]
(noun) - Definition:
- a small flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm, often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in
- Example:
- The mother made chocolate biscuits for her children.
- Synonym(s):cookie (AE)
- ice cream [ˈaɪs.kɹiːm]
(uncountable noun) - Definition:
- a dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured
- Example:
- Strawberries are particularly delicious with ice cream.
- Homophone(s):I scream
- popcorn ['pɒpkôrn]
(uncountable noun) - Definition:
- a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating
- Example:
- When we go to the cinema, we always buy popcorn.
- cream [kɹiːm]
(uncountable noun) - Definition:
- a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenisation
- Example:
- Follow the recipe and add the heavy cream next.
- chocolate bar, chocolate bars
(noun) - Definition:
- a kind of candy in the shape of a bar, often made of chocolate
- Example:
- If you take a banana to school, you may also take a chocolate bar.
- doughnut, doughnuts ['dəʊnʌt]
(noun) - Definition:
- a deep-fried, round piece of dough or batter, often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings
- Example:
- How about a doughnut after dinner?
- pancake, pancakes ['pænkeɪk]
(noun) - Definition:
- a thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter
- Example:
- Can we have pancakes for breakfast?
- pastry, pastries ['peɪstri]
(noun) - Definition:
- a baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust, also tarts, bear claws, Napoleons, puff pastries, etc
- Example:
- Can you bring some home-made pastries?
- jelly, jellies [ˈdʒɛl.i]
(noun) - Definition:
- a dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set
- Example:
- Perfect jelly is of an appetising flavour and beautifully coloured.
- Synonym(s):jello (AE)
- fruitcake, fruitcakes [ˈfɹuːt.keɪk]
(noun) - Definition:
- a cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice
- Example:
- She's going to bring a chocolate cake and I can make a fruitcake if you want?
- muffin, muffins ['mʌfɪn]
(noun) - Definition:
- a type of rich individual cake, usually small, containing chocolate chips, blueberries or some other flavouring
- Example:
- I love blueberry muffins!
- fruit, fruits [fɹuːt]
(noun) - Definition:
- the sweet, edible seed-bearing part of a plant, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilisation
- Example:
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- sweet [swiːt]
(adjective) - Definition:
- having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar
- Example:
- Sweet wines make better dessert wines.
- Homophone(s):suite
Source: http://www.learning-english-online.net/areas/vocabulary/private-life/food/meals/dessert/
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