Vocabulary

  • in terms of
  • tap on: To touch someone or something gently and usually repeatedly, often to attract attention.
  • in order to: For the purpose of; with the aim of.
  • on behalf of: As the representative of someone
  • go on: To continue doing something
  • direct to: To show or tell someone how to get to a place.
  • work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
  • do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
  • look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
  • think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
  • out there: In or to a place that is far away
  • come from: To have as your native country or city
  • have to: Must do
  • come at: To approach someone to attack them
  • fit in: To mix with others so you get on well with them
  • feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
  • check out
  • genuinely: In a real, actual, not false or artificial way
  • tackle: To start working on a difficult problem
  • intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
  • elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
  • complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
  • environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
  • domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
  • surveillance: Careful watching of a person/place, e.g. by police
  • conduct: Your behavior
  • bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
  • function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
  • issue: To make something available to be used or sold
  • concern: To be about a particular topic
  • ordinary: Normal or usual
  • numerous: Existing in large numbers
  • diversity: Having a range of different races, ideas etc.
  • security: Department in a company in charge of protection
  • threat: Warning of probable trouble
  • nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
  • characteristic: Typical or distinctive
  • tap: To access a liquid (e.g. in a tree) through a hole
  • lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
  • fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
  • lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
  • thumb: To use your thumb to request a ride in a car
  • agency: Business that provides some service for others
  • prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
  • recruit: Person who has just joined the military
  • aftermath: The bad result/situation after an event
  • satellite: Device sent into space that aids communication
  • important: Having power or authority
  • kind: In a caring and helpful manner
  • order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
  • operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
  • mission: A task or role someone is given to do
  • government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
  • ban: To make something illegal or not allowed
  • considerate: Taking care not to offend or disturb someone else
  • workforce: The total number of working people
  • override: To make (rule or law) not be valid anymore
  • behalf: As a representative of someone or a group.
  • discretion: The right to exercise your own judgment
  • service: Work that a person does to assist others
  • world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
  • type: Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
  • work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
  • angle: Place where two lines or surfaces meet
  • supportive: Providing help and support to someone or something
  • opaque: Hard to see through; cloudy
  • inclusive: Covering or including everything
  • people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
  • care: To feel interest, concern, or worry
  • recruitment: Act of enlisting people into the army
  • loner: Person choosing to spend time alone
  • underrepresented: Insufficient amount of support or representation
  • superhuman: Above or beyond human power or endurance
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    • agency

      US /ˈedʒənsi/

      UK /'eɪdʒənsɪ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Business that provides some service for others
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    • angle

      US /ˈæŋɡəl/

      UK /ˈæŋgl/

      • Noun
      • Place where two lines or surfaces meet
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    • ban

      US /bæn/

      UK /bæn/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To make something illegal or not allowed
      • To prohibit someone from participating in a particular online community or game.
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Official action preventing something happening
      • A prohibition from participating in a particular online community or game.
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    • behalf

      US /bɪˈhæf, -ˈhɑf/

      UK /biˈhɑ:f/

      • Noun
      • As a representative of someone or a group.
      • For the good of someone or something.
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    • bond

      US /bɑnd/

      UK /bɒnd/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
      • Closeness that is shared between people or groups
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To develop a close relationship with
      • To become joined or connected, e.g. using glue
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    • characteristic

      US /ˌkærəktəˈrɪstɪk/

      UK /ˌkærəktəˈrɪstɪk/

      • Adjective
      • Typical or distinctive
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • A feature or quality belonging typically to a particular person, place, or thing and serving to identify it
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    • check out

      US /tʃɛk aʊt/

      UK /tʃek aut/

      • Phrase
      • Phrasal Verb
      • To find out information about something
      • To take books out of a library
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    • come at

      US /kʌm æt/

      UK /kʌm æt/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To approach someone to attack them
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    • come from

      US /kʌm frʌm/

      UK /kʌm frɔm/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To have as your native country or city
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    • complex

      US /kəmˈplɛks, ˈkɑmˌplɛks/

      UK /'kɒmpleks/

      • Countable Noun
      • Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
      • Adjective
      • Not being simple; having many parts or aspects
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    • concern

      US /kənˈsɚn/

      UK /kənˈsɜ:n/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To be about a particular topic
      • To have a direct impact on someone
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Company, firm or business
      • Feeling of worry or anxiety
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    • conduct

      US / kənˈdʌkt/

      UK /kənˈdʌkt/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Your behavior
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To behave in a certain way; e.g. at a party
      • To let electricity or heat travel through
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    • considerate

      US /kənˈsɪdərɪt/

      UK /kənˈsɪdərət/

      • Adjective
      • Taking care not to offend or disturb someone else
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    • direct to

      US

      UK

      • Transitive Verb
      • To show or tell someone how to get to a place.
      • To send something to a particular person or place.
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    • discretion

      US /dɪˈskrɛʃən/

      UK /dɪˈskreʃn/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • The right to exercise your own judgment
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    • diversity

      US /dɪˈvə:sɪti, daɪ-/

      UK /daɪ'vɜ:sətɪ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Having a range of different races, ideas etc.
      • A range of different things.
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    • do in

      US

      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To make completely tired out and exhausted
      • To destroy or cause damage to someone
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    • domestic

      US /dəˈmɛstɪk/

      UK /dəˈmestɪk/

      • Noun
      • Someone paid to help with housework in your house
      • Adjective
      • British informal fight between husband and wife
      • Concerning your own home or house
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    • elite

      US /iˈliːt/

      UK /iˈliːt/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
      • A person of the elite class.
      • Adjective
      • Belonging to the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
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    • feel like

      US

      UK

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To have a desire or inclination for something.
      • To have a particular quality or sensation; resemble.
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    • fiction

      US /ˈfɪkʃən/

      UK /ˈfɪkʃn/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Made-up stories; imagined events
      • False statement or account about something
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    • fit in

      US /fɪt ɪn/

      UK /fit in/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To mix with others so you get on well with them
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    • function

      US /ˈfʌŋkʃən/

      UK /'fʌŋkʃn/

      • Noun
      • Social event, or party such as a wedding
      • Mathematical operation used in calculations
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To serve a certain purpose or role
      • To be operating, working or achieving its purpose
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    • genuinely

      US /ˈdʒɛnjʊɪnlɪ/

      UK /'dʒenjʊɪnlɪ/

      • Adverb
      • In a real, actual, not false or artificial way
      • In a sincere and honest way.
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    • go on

      US /ɡo ɑn/

      UK /ɡəu ɔn/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To continue doing something
      • To happen (usually negative)
      • Interjection
      • Used to encourage someone
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    • have to

      US /hæv tu/

      UK /ˈhæv tə/

      • Auxiliary Verb
      • Must do
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    • in order to

      US /ɪn ˈɔrdɚ tu/

      UK /in ˈɔ:də tu:/

      • Preposition
      • For the purpose of; with the aim of.
      • Phrase
      • In a specific sequence or arrangement.
      • With the aim of; for the purpose of.
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    • in terms of

      US

      UK

      • Phrase
      • With regard to; concerning a particular aspect.
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    • inclusive

      US /ɪnˈklusɪv/

      UK /ɪnˈklu:sɪv/

      • Adjective
      • Covering or including everything
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    • intelligence

      US /ɪnˈtɛlədʒəns/

      UK /ɪn'telɪdʒəns/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Collection of secret information about something
      • Ability to learn things or to consider situations
      • Adjective
      • Of the spying services; acting in secrecy
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    • issue

      US /ˈɪʃu/

      UK /'ɪʃu:/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To make something available to be used or sold
      • To deliver a statement, etc. in an official manner
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Important topic discussed, debated or argued over
      • Single edition of a magazine
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    • lift

      US /lɪft/

      UK /lɪft/

      • Noun
      • Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
      • Machine carrying people up or down to other floors
      • Transitive Verb
      • To stop or cancel something, such as a rule
      • To move something to higher position
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    • loner

      US /ˈloʊnə(r)/

      UK /ˈləʊnə(r)/

      • Noun
      • Person choosing to spend time alone
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    • look at

      US /lʊk æt/

      UK /luk æt/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To use your eyes to focus on something
      • To focus your eyes on something carefully
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    • mission

      US /ˈmɪʃən/

      UK /'mɪʃn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • A task or role someone is given to do
      • Special assignment given to a person or group
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    • numerous

      US /ˈnumərəs, ˈnju-/

      UK /ˈnju:mərəs/

      • Adjective
      • Existing in large numbers
      • Consisting of many things or people.
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    • on behalf of

      US /ɑn bɪˈhæf ʌv/

      UK /ɔn biˈhɑ:f ɔv/

      • Phrase
      • As the representative of someone
      • Acting as a representative of.
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    • opaque

      US /oʊˈpeɪk/

      UK /əʊˈpeɪk/

      • Adjective
      • Hard to see through; cloudy
      • Being hard to understand
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    • ordinary

      US /ˈɔ:rdneri/

      UK /'ɔ:dnrɪ/

      • Adjective
      • Normal or usual
      • Of the rank of ordinary seaman.
      • Noun
      • An ecclesiastical judge or official having ordinary jurisdiction in a given area.
      • Any of several simple and basic geometrical figures.
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    • out there

      US /aʊt ðɛr/

      UK /aut ðɛə/

      • Adverb
      • In or to a place that is far away
      • Existing in the universe
      • Adjective
      • Unconventional; strange; avant-garde
      • Existing or available.
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    • override

      US /ˌovɚˈraɪd/

      UK /ˌəʊvə'raɪd/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To make (rule or law) not be valid anymore
      • To be considered more important than
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    • prove

      US /pruv/

      UK /pru:v/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
      • To test the quality or worth of something.
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To turn out to be; be found to be.
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    • recruit

      US /rɪˈkrut/

      UK /rɪ'kru:t/

      • Countable Noun
      • Person who has just joined the military
      • Person who has just begun a new activity or job
      • Transitive Verb
      • To convince and help people to join the military
      • To find new employees, volunteers or members
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    • recruitment

      US /rɪˈkrutmənt/

      UK /rɪ'kru:tmənt/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Act of enlisting people into the army
      • The action of enlisting or hiring new people.
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    • satellite

      US /ˈsætlˌaɪt/

      UK /'sætəlaɪt/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Device sent into space that aids communication
      • Natural object in space that moves around another
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    • security

      US /sɪˈkjʊrɪti/sə'kjurətɪ/

      UK /sɪ'kjʊərətɪ/

      • Noun
      • Department in a company in charge of protection
      • Financial document, like stocks, bonds and notes
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    • superhuman

      US /ˌsjupɚˈhjumən/

      UK /ˌsu:pəˈhju:mən/

      • Adjective
      • Above or beyond human power or endurance
      • Countable Noun
      • Human with special power or endurance
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    • supportive

      US /səˈpɔ:rtɪv/

      UK /səˈpɔ:tɪv/

      • Adjective
      • Providing help and support to someone or something
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    • surveillance

      US /sɚˈveləns/

      UK /sɜ:'veɪləns/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Careful watching of a person/place, e.g. by police
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    • tackle

      US /ˈtækəl/

      UK /'tækl/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To start working on a difficult problem
      • To grab and throw a person to the ground
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Equipment used in fishing
      • Arrangement of ropes and wheels used for lifting
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    • tap

      US /tæp/

      UK /tæp/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To access a liquid (e.g. in a tree) through a hole
      • To spy one someone electronically
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Faucet; the place you can get water from a pipe
      • Light hit, generally one that makes a sound
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    • tap on

      US /tæp ɑn/

      UK /tæp ɔn/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To touch someone or something gently and usually repeatedly, often to attract attention.
      • To select something by touching it on a screen.
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    • think of

      US /θɪŋk ʌv/

      UK /θiŋk ɔv/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To look on as (being something specific); consider
      • To consider or remember something.
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To imagine or call something to mind
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    • threat

      US /θrɛt/

      UK /θret/

      • Noun
      • Warning of probable trouble
      • A warning that you may be harmed
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    • thumb

      US /θʌm/

      UK /θʌm/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To use your thumb to request a ride in a car
      • Countable Noun
      • Part of a glove that goes over the thumb
      • The short, thick finger on the side of your hand
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    • underrepresented

      US /ˌʌndəˌreprɪ'zentɪd/

      UK /ˌʌndəreprɪ'zentɪd/

      • Adjective
      • Insufficient amount of support or representation
      • Transitive Verb
      • Presented someone or something with less than its true importance or value.
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    • work in

      US /wɚk ɪn/

      UK /wə:k in/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To make an opening for something in your schedule
      • To fit person/thing into a schedule or sequence
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    • workforce

      US /ˈwə:kˌfɔrs/

      UK /ˈwɜ:kˌfɔ:s/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • The total number of working people
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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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