Vocabulary
- waste away: To gradually become weaker and thinner, often due to illness or lack of food.
- in time: Eventually; after a period of time.
- mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
- career: Particular occupation in professional life
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- integrate: To combine together; make into one thing
- draw: To attract attention to someone or something
- spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
- deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
- guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
- waste: To kill or severely harm someone
- breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
- decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
- fill: To make something full
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
- suffocate: To (cause to) die from lack of air to breathe
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
- deep: Complex and important
- differentiate: To see or show how things are not the same
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- slave: Someone who is legally owned by another person
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- overdue: Past the date you should do something
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- meet: To provide something that is necessary
- calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
- stay: To keep trying without giving up
- engineer: Someone whose job is designing machines, buildings
- pass: Act of giving a ball to another player in a sport
- overtime: Extra time in a sports game
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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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_neurosama - I don't want to be an engineer (lyrics)
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李彥宏 posted on 2025/01/08Ever feel like you're stuck in a career you didn't choose? This song dives deep into the burnout and exam anxiety of engineering students, offering a relatable look at career doubt and those dreaded night shifts. You'll pick up simple sentence structures and gain cultural insight into the pressures of choosing a path!
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