Daily Beginner English Reading: A Simple English Story About Apples

adj

1. greatly pleasing or entertaining

e.g. a delightful surprise
the comedy was delightful
a delicious joke

Synonym: delightful

2. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

Synonym: delectablelusciouspleasant-tastingscrumptioustoothsomeyummy

noun

1. the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

e.g. without competition there would be no market
they were driven from the marketplace

Synonym: marketplacemarket place

2. a marketplace where groceries are sold

e.g. the grocery store included a meat market

Synonym: grocery storegroceryfood market

3. an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

Synonym: marketplacemarket placemart

4. the securities markets in the aggregate

e.g. the market always frustrates the small investor

Synonym: securities industry

5. the customers for a particular product or service

e.g. before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it

adj

1. full of juice

2. lucrative

e.g. a juicy contract
a nice fat job

Synonym: fat

3. suggestive of sexual impropriety

e.g. a blue movie
blue jokes
he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
a juicy scandal
a naughty wink
naughty words
racy anecdotes
a risque story
spicy gossip

Synonym: bluegamygameynaughtyracyrisquespicy

4. having strong sexual appeal

e.g. juicy barmaids
a red-hot mama
a voluptuous woman
a toothsome blonde in a tight dress

Synonym: lusciousred-hottoothsomevoluptuous