Topic: New Year’s Food, Simplified
- just the need-to-know, need-to-try
Word definitions
solemn (adj.): serious, not playful
painstakingly (adv.): with great care and hard work
extensively (adv.): a lot, deeply and widely
go over the basics (phrase): review basic knowledge
long story short (idiom): summarize, say it briefly
odd (adj.): (for numbers:) 1,3,5,7…; strange; (the odd …:) occasional
keep well (v.): stay safe to eat for a good period of time
roe (n.): seafood eggs
fertility (n.): ability to have children
hunched (adj.): with one’s back bent down into a curve
wrap [one’s] head around (idiom): understand the structure, logic, or reason of something
veggies (n.): vegetables
savoury (adj.): not sweet (with a mainly salty flavour)
choking hazard (n.): something that can get dangerously stuck in someone’s throat
bite off more than [one] can chew (idiom): take on more tasks/responsibility than one can handle