Describing things
Colours Named After Things
Camel, jet, and the other colours borrowed from objects.
- Teens and up
- Medium · B1
- 12 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- coffee
- a hot brown drink made from roasted beans
- camel
- a desert animal with one or two humps
- snow
- soft white flakes that fall in cold weather
- gray
- the colour between black and white
- desert
- a huge dry area of land where almost no rain falls
- lime
- a small green citrus fruit with a sour taste
- tan
- a brown colour the skin turns in the sun
- gold
- a shiny yellow metal that is very valuable
- jet
- a fast aircraft driven by engines that push out hot gas
- cream
- the thick, rich part that rises to the top of milk
- bone
- one of the hard white parts inside your body
- silver
- a shiny greyish-white precious metal
