Word of the Week - 56

SCORCHING

This week's word is an adjective which will be very useful to you in the coming weeks as the temperature in the capital goes up and up. The adjective means very hot, which is what it is now in Madrid.

It's a scorching summer day!

It's scorching hot in the street.

There are many other adjectives in English that you can use to say that it or something is very hot. Here are a couple more:

I'm boiling, isn't the air conditioning working?

The house was sweltering when we got back from our holidays. We had to open all the windows.