Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- put it down: To place something on a surface.
- except for: Not including; excluding.
- phone in: Call someone by phone, often to report or notify remotely.
- wake up: To stop sleeping
- get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
- free up: To make something available for a particular use.
- deal with
- episode: One separate event in a series of events
- content: Being happy or satisfied
- engage: To start to fight with an enemy
- access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
- slightly: Only a little
- basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
- scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- positive: Showing agreement or support for something
- immediately: Without any delay; straight away
- revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
- effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
- audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
- convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
- combat: To fight someone or something physically
- research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
- annoying: To make someone angry
- trial: Hearing and judgment of a case in court
- method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
- cozy: Comfortable, warm, pleasant, and often, small
- accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
- realistic: Looks or appears real; like things really are
- stimulate: To arouse or excite emotionally
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- addiction: Lack of control the overuse of something e.g. drugs
- expertise: The special knowledge that an expert has
- purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
- productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
- neuron: A nerve cell
- click: To work well with someone or something
- doom: Certain of the failure or destruction of
- scroll: To move up and down a computer screen
- cure: Something that solves a problem or makes it better
- social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
- leisure: Time when you have no work to do and can relax
- domain: A field of knowledge, thought or influence
- sponsor: Person that supports the passage of a new law
- drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
- comfy: In a position that feels just right
- grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
- business: A company formed for making profit
- check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
- reclaim: To get back something that was lost; recover
- remove: To get rid of something completely
- shortcut: A route that is shorter than the normal
- monetize: To make money from your invention or ideas
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- folder: Container that holds documents
- back: Farthest from the front e.g. in a classroom
- add: To include as well
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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
A2 Elementary
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This 1 change cured my phone addiction
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林宜悉 posted on 2025/11/19Feeling glued to your phone? This video shares a super simple hack – turning your screen grayscale – that creator Anna Akana says cured her phone addiction! You'll pick up practical phrases for discussing productivity and learn how to use accessibility shortcuts for a major life hack.
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