Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
- get back to: To get in contact with someone again
- in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
- in one sitting: All at one time; without interruption.
- eat in: To have a meal at home instead of going out.
- absolutely amazing: Extremely good or impressive; causing great surprise or wonder.
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- down with: Suffering from an illness.
- slow down: To reduce the speed
- turned out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
- like heck: With great intensity or force.
- calorie intake: The amount of calories consumed through food and beverages.
- back to normal: Returned to the usual or expected state or condition.
- build up: To increase the amount; collect something
- of course: Sure ; Certainly
- for the most part: Generally; mostly; on the whole.
- next to: Being located along side another
- put up with: To suffer (a difficult thing) without complaining
- got to: To arrive at some place
- go to town: To do something enthusiastically and thoroughly.
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- absolutely: Completely; totally; very
- period: Set amount of time during which events take place
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
- consumption: The act of buying and using products
- athlete: Person trained to compete in sports
- digestion: Process of changing eaten food for use in the body
- digest: To convert food into energy in your stomach
- pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
- sane: showing good judgment and understanding
- intake: Amount of something that a person's body consumes
- professional: Of jobs such as doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc.
- examine: (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
- swallow: To believe (something that is not true)
- competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
- caffeine: Substance in coffee, etc. that keeps you awake
- gain: To increase in something, such as weight
- normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
- league: Group of people, countries with a common goal
- compete: To try to beat others at something, e.g. a race
- tolerance: Ability to adjust to changes, your environment etc.
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- sip: To drink just a little at a time
- amateur: Someone doing an activity for pleasure, not a job
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
- choke: To cause someone not to breathe
- throat: Part of the neck that is below the chin
- alternate: To follow one thing after another repeatedly
- contest: Struggle or competition between rivals
- worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
- person: Man, woman or child
- marathon: Lasting for a long time
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- burp: To expel gas from the stomach noisily
- bun: Woman's hairstyle of hair drawn into a round shape
- fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
- calorie: Unit for measuring the amount of energy in food
- rank: To rate or class things
- dub: To add a new soundtrack to an audio recording
- healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- weight: How heavy something is
- kale: Hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves
- uncomfortable: Not being relaxed; worried about something
- lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
- recovery: Process of returning to a former (good) state
- bitterness: With a strong unpleasant taste
- stay: To keep trying without giving up
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- dehydrate: To cause (skin, body) to lose water that is needed
- dunk: To put a donut, etc. into a liquid to wet it
- hiccup: A spasm of the diaphragm emitting a sharp sound
- sweetness: Property of tasting as if it contains sugar
- casino: Establishment that hosts legalized gambling
- chestnut: Type of often edible brown nut
- chipmunk: Burrowing ground squirrel of America and Asia
- body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
- plop: Sound made when a solid is dropped into a liquid
- tanner: Craftsman who tans skins and hides
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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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世界一のフードファイターだけど「早食い」について質問ある? | Tech Support | WIRED Japan
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林宜悉 posted on 2025/02/02Ever wondered how the world's number one competitive eater trains and what goes on behind the scenes? Joey Chestnut answers your burning questions about everything from donut vs. pizza challenges to the surprising training methods and physical toll of competitive eating. You'll pick up some fascinating vocabulary related to endurance and physical adaptation along the way!
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