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Taste Food Drink Tasted Liking Preference I Small

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If you have a t____ for something, you have a liking or preference for it.If you have a taste for something, you have a liking or preference for it.
She developed a taste for journeys to isolated hazardous regions in North America.
That gave me a taste for reading.
word taste
full-definition
noun
Taste is one of the five senses that people have. When you have food or drink in your mouth, your sense of taste makes it possible for you to recognize what it is.
...a keen sense of taste.
The taste of something is the individual quality which it has when you put it in your mouth and which distinguishes it from other things. For example, something may have a sweet, bitter, sour, or salty taste.
I like the taste of fast food too much to give it up.
The taste of blood in her throat made her want to vomit.
Nettles are surprisingly good–much like spinach but with a sweetish taste.
If you have a taste of some food or drink, you try a small amount of it in order to see what the flavour is like.
Let them have a taste of cold food but I prefer mine hot.
If you have a taste of a particular way of life or activity, you have a brief experience of it.
But having had a taste of the big time, he won't want to go back to playing in the reserves.
This voyage was his first taste of freedom.
If you have a taste for something, you have a liking or preference for it.
She developed a taste for journeys to isolated hazardous regions in North America.
That gave me a taste for reading.
A person's taste is their choice in the things that they like or buy, for example their clothes, possessions, or music. If you say that someone has good taste, you mean that you approve of their choices. If you say that they have poor taste, you disapprove of their choices.
His taste in clothes is extremely good.
Oxford's social circle was far too liberal for her taste.
...a large family with different tastes and preferences.
How could so many people have such bad taste in music?
verb
If food or drink tastes of something, it has that particular flavour, which you notice when you eat or drink it.
I drank a cup of tea that tasted of diesel.
It tastes like chocolate.
The pizza tastes delicious without any cheese at all.
If you taste some food or drink, you eat or drink a small amount of it in order to try its flavour, for example to see if you like it or not.
We tasted the water just to see how salty it was.
Before proceeding any further, cut off a small bit of the meat and taste it.
If you can taste something that you are eating or drinking, you are aware of its flavour.
You can taste the chilli in the dish but it is a little sweet.
If you taste something such as a way of life or a pleasure, you experience it for a short period of time.
Anyone who has tasted this life wants it to carry on for as long as possible.
inflections tastestastingtasted
cefr-level A2

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