Vocabulary
- figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
- have to: Must do
- dig into: To start eating food enthusiastically.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- come from: To have as your native country or city
- going on: To continue doing something
- in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
- one of each: A single item from every available type or variety.
- go back to: To return to a starting point
- play out: To use up or exhaust
- flaw in: A defect or imperfection in something.
- rather than: More exactly; more correctly
- cross it: To cancel or eliminate something from a list or plan.
- set up
- yellow: Color of lemons or the sun
- parent: Person's, animal's mother or father
- cross: Angry and upset
- green: Color of young leaves
- big: Popular
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
- fruit: Result or product of something
- parental: Concerning, or provided by, a parent
- black: To fill in something to make it a very dark color
- carry: To have a child, be pregnant
- fly: Common flying insect, sometimes blue in color
- understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- look: Person's beauty or physical attractiveness
- square: Shape with 4 equal length sides and 4 equal angles
- line: Border that divides two places or regions
- normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
- wild: In a manner which lacks control
- level: Specific height of something
- model: Being an excellent example of
- copy: A counter for items that are the same
- video: Recording capturing action with sound
- add: To include as well
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
- mapping: To draw a diagram to show the geography of an area
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
- visualize: To create a picture in your mind of something
- exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
- delivering: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- arrange: To write music for a particular instrument
- independently: In a manner being free from the control of another
- deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
- wing: Part of an animal's body that is used for flying
- crossing: To put one thing over another e.g. arms
- sex: State of being male or female
- independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
- length: Distance from one end of a pool to the other
- genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
- odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
- division: How many times a number is contained in another
- represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
- deeply: To a significant degree
- beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
- package: Box or container items are placed in for mailing
- dependent: Someone who relies on (financial) support
- seed: A person's children; offspring
- combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
- combination: Series of letters or numbers needed to open a lock
- cell: Smallest unit of living things in biology
- dominant: The strongest; most powerful
- gene: Part of cell controlling development of a thing
- respective: Belonging to each of two or more persons or things
- flaw: Quality that makes something imperfect
- vertically: In an up and down position
- versa: used to say that what you have just said is also true in the opposite order
- alternate: To follow one thing after another repeatedly
- probability: What the chances are that something will happen
- ratio: The relationship in relative size, etc.
- vice: used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them
- wrinkle: Small folds in the skin, e.g. as a sign of age
- offspring: Child or young of a person, plant or animal
- inheritance: Past ideals, styles still important in the present
- fertilization: Process of a sperm entering an egg in reproduction
- recessive: (Of genes) not appearing but remaining hidden
- meiosis: Cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants
- chromosome: Cell structures that carry the genetic material
- coloration: The particular colors or pattern of color
- allele: Either of a pair (or series)
- hybrid: Formed from combining different things
- vestigial: Not fully developed in mature animals
- Orient: Area comprising Asia
- interphase: The period in the cell cycle during which a cell grows and replicates its DNA before mitosis or meiosis.
- recombination: Combining of items different from their parents
- metaphase: The second stage of meiosis
- zygote: Diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)
- homologous: Similar, but with different function
- duplicate: Something that is the exact same thing as another
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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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李掌櫃 posted on 2014/03/29Ever wondered how traits are passed down through generations? This video dives into chromosomal inheritance, explaining meiosis and Punnett squares with clear, step-by-step examples perfect for high school biology! You'll pick up essential vocabulary like 'gametes' and 'recombination' to boost your understanding of genetics.
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