Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- for long: For a considerable period of time.
- deeply affected: Strongly influenced or touched emotionally.
- at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
- sober up: To become sober after being drunk.
- look after: To take care of someone or something
- speak of: To mention someone or something in conversation.
- in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
- grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
- set up
- take on: To acquire a new characteristic
- in time: Eventually; after a period of time.
- on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
- mindset: Way someone things about something
- deprivation: State of lacking something needed
- extremely: In a way that is much more than usual or expected
- alternative: Something different you can choose
- properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
- genuine: Being real, actual, and not false or artificial
- scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
- intimate: (E.g. of detail) fine, detailed or complete
- anxious: Afraid of what may happen; worried and nervous
- reinforce: To send more troops/resources to support an army
- necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
- appetite: Feeling of hunger or desire for something
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
- philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
- fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
- awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
- emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- atmosphere: Air around us
- demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
- psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
- reward: To give something because of someone's good work
- suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
- mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
- affect: To cause a change in something else
- regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- glimpse: To see or notice something very briefly
- suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
- sober: Not drunk
- deem: To judge something to be a certain thing, way
- isolation: Condition of being in a distinct, separate place
- misery: Thing that causes unhappiness
- fundamentally: In a basic and important way
- grim: Being very serious or determined
- satisfaction: Happy feeling because of something that you did
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- delight: Strong feeling of great pleasure
- ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
- suspicion: Feeling that something or something is doubtful
- surrender: Ending a fight you cannot win; formally giving up
- spur: To make your horse go faster
- adulthood: Time of life when a person is fully grown
- grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
- prepare: To make something ready for use
- vastly: To an exceedingly great extent or degree
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- ecstasy: State of overwhelming happiness; joy
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- belong: To be a welcomed as a new member of a group
- relocate: To move to a new or different place
- downbeat: First beat of a musical measure
- runaway: (Of a victory) easy; hardly contested
- countenance: Expression of the face
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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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Overcoming Negative Thought Patterns to Find Joy
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林宜悉 posted on 2025/07/19Ever feel stuck in a cycle of negative thoughts? This video dives into how childhood conditioning shapes our mindset and offers practical ways to find more joy, using simple sentence structures and some really useful advanced vocabulary. It's a fantastic chance to explore psychology and personal growth while boosting your English!
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