Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #944 of 1319

reflex (n.)

an automatic response

Examples

  • A quick reflex.

Key rules

  • A reflex is an automatic response of the body to a stimulus
  • A quick reflex, a knee reflex
  • Reflex is countable
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