Vocabulary

  • metro area: A densely populated urban area and its surrounding suburbs, economically and socially integrated.
  • in areas: Located or occurring within specific regions or locations.
  • depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
  • above ground: Located on or higher than the earth's surface.
  • out there: In or to a place that is far away
  • as well as: Also; in addition to
  • make up: To invent or create a story
  • in theory: According to the stated ideas or principles
  • used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
  • on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
  • essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
  • distraction: Something drawing your attention away from
  • experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
  • typically: In a normal or usual way
  • identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
  • approximately: Around; nearly; almost; about (a number)
  • amount: Quantity of something
  • spare: To make (money or time) available for
  • desire: To wish for, hope or want something
  • quarantine: To isolate ill people to prevent disease spreading
  • establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
  • occur: To come to pass or to happen
  • state: Region within a country, with its own government
  • stack: A large number or amount of something
  • emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
  • trap: Device used for catching animals
  • release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
  • breed: Kind of / sort of
  • drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
  • rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
  • vacuum: Space with absolutely no air in it
  • magnitude: Number representing force of an earthquake
  • scope: Opportunity for action or thought
  • viable: Being capable of living, growing, and developing
  • detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
  • source: Piece of information; a person giving information
  • aim: Act of pointing something at a target
  • goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
  • devastate: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • root: Emotional connection with a place, history etc.
  • tray: A wide flat thing to carry food on
  • invasive: Entering the body, etc. in a destructive way
  • coma: State of unconsciousness caused by injury, disease
  • place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
  • trailer: Advertisement of short scenes from a movie
  • aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
  • mediterranean: Describing the sea between Italy and Africa
  • program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
  • chance: The way something happens without planning
  • migrate: To move from one country or place to live or work
  • deploy: To put into position (often a military operation)
  • density: Degree to which an area is filled or covered
  • hatch: To be born or come out from an egg
  • bundle: A group of things that are tied/fastened together
  • sterile: Completely clean; with no bacteria
  • include: To make someone, something part of a group
  • differentiate: To see or show how things are not the same
  • dye: A liquid that colors hair, cloth etc.
  • perimeter: Outline or border; outer edge
  • area: Amount of measured space
  • overhead: Located above your head or in the sky
  • ultraviolet: Concerning light waves that are extremely short
  • ginger: Being reddish-brown in color
  • begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
  • unit: One apartment in a building
  • plane: An airplane
  • center: Community place people go health or social reasons
  • offshore: (Of tax avoidance schemes) not in your country
  • incubation: Development in a particular environment
  • metro: Underground railway or subway
  • radioactive: Emitting harmful energy from nuclear activity
  • ship: Large boat
  • larva: Wormlike young form of some insects
  • farmland: Rural area where farming is practiced
  • milliliter: Unit of liquid volume equal to 0.001 liter
  • pupa: Insect in the inactive stage of development
  • hopper: Mix of things to be considered or done
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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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