Vault seed record

Heavy rain collocation

The flight was delayed because of ___ rain.

Classification

reviewed-seedapprovedvocabulary-collocation-depthcollocation-choicechoice-distractorA2Vocabulary

Provenance

Kind: human-authored

Source: production-seed-expansion

Batch: production-seed-batch-002

Reviewer: content-lead

Updated: 2026-05-20

Instruction and answer

Instruction

Choose the natural collocation.

Correct answer

heavy

Explanation

English prefers 'heavy rain'. Collocations are the reason learners can know every word and still sound translated.

Product use

Surfaces

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Source languages

globalrues

Difficulty

low

Conversion hook

Easy to answer, sticky enough to make users check themselves.

Review payload

Review notes

Clean collocation seed with defensible distractors.

Media prompt

No media prompt attached.

Assets

collocation-pairs

Source traps

global-collocation-transfer

Tags

collocationsweathernaturalness

Usage

Tests: collocations, vocabulary-size, native-sounding

Funnels: ru-translated-english, es-translated-english

Challenges: heavy-rain-flex

{
  "type": "single-choice",
  "correctOptionId": "heavy",
  "options": [
    {
      "id": "heavy",
      "label": "heavy",
      "rationale": "English says heavy rain."
    },
    {
      "id": "strong",
      "label": "strong",
      "rationale": "Strong works with wind or coffee, not usually rain."
    },
    {
      "id": "hard",
      "label": "hard",
      "rationale": "It can rain hard, but hard rain is not the best adjective-noun collocation here."
    },
    {
      "id": "big",
      "label": "big",
      "rationale": "Big does not sound natural with rain."
    }
  ]
}