Vocabulary
- work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- from scratch: From the very beginning; from nothing.
- around the world: In or to many countries.
- as you like: In any way that you want; according to your preference.
- right for: Suitable or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation.
- figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
- on to: Toward something; forward
- computer: Machine for storing data, accessing the internet
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- wanted: Wished for and desired
- great: Very good; better than before
- help: To act to enable a person to do something; assist
- teach: To help someone learn or do something
- page: Person's name
- funny: Causing laughter; amusing
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- school: Large group of fish that swim together
- science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
- web: Skin between ducks' toes that enables them to swim
- college: School or educational institution for adults
- full: Containing all the parts; complete
- tune: To make adjustments to equipment to make it better
- offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- bright: Cheerful and happy (manner)
- immediately: Without any delay; straight away
- goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
- join: To bring something close to another, to become one
- higher: Farther above the ground
- awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
- complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
- interested: Having had your attention taken; curious
- qualify: To earn a qualification through exam, studying
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- curriculum: Group of related courses in a school or college
- encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
- rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
- taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
- application: Software program, e.g. for smart phone
- user: Person that uses a service/thing, e.g. a website
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- percent: One one-hundredth of a whole; the symbol %
- fully: Completely or entirely
- programming: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- convert: To switch from a religion, belief etc. to another
- scratch: To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch
- functional: Useful; not just for decoration
- supply: Availability of products and services for use
- management: People who are in control of a business or group
- analysis: Careful study to better understand something
- aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
- code: To express information in a series of numbers
- basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
- outnumber: To be larger than something in number
- prior: Existing or coming earlier in time
- orientation: Where you are in a location, e.g. facing east/west
- program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- engineering: The practical application of science to industry
- internship: Period of time when a person works as an intern
- freshman: Student in the first year of high school, college
- residential: Concerning patients staying in a hospital
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She took a brave step forward, leaving behind her comfort zone to chase her dreams.
Vocabulary
- brave
adj. Having courage
- comfort zone
phr. A familiar situation where one feels safe
Explanation
a brave step is a noun phrase, where brave is an adjective modifying the noun step, meaning "a courageous step".
forward is an adverb modifying step, meaning "ahead".
The whole phrase serves as the object, answering the "what" of took (verb) — she took a brave step forward.
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brave
US/brev/
UK/breɪv/
adj.Brave
v.t.To bravely face
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Google's Computer Science Summer Institute
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Jason posted on 2014/03/05Ever wondered what it's like to get hands-on experience at Google? This video dives into Google's Computer Science Summer Institute, a fantastic program for learning web development and intro to programming! You'll pick up tons of workplace vocabulary and see how exciting a career in tech can be.
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