Vocabulary
- on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
- bring in: To earn a certain amount of money or profits
- in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
- set up
- obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
- critical: Making a negative judgment of something
- straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
- impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
- expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
- current: Electricity flowing through wires
- track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
- toll: Sound that a big bell makes, when it is rung
- flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
- remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
- direction: When someone tells people what to do
- board: Surface for posting or showing information
- tragic: (Of a play, movie, or book) with a sad ending
- emergency: Sudden event needing an immediate action
- slam: To criticize sharply
- rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
- collision: Act of crashing into someone or something else
- complicate: To make more difficult to do, understand or use
- smash: Accident involving vehicles
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- puzzle: To be a challenge to understand; confuse
- allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
- continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
- crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
- rear: Part of the human body that you sit on; buttocks
- bring: To take or go with someone to a place
- rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- person: Man, woman or child
- carriage: Vehicle on wheels, usually pulled by a horse
- inspection: Official examination to make sure everything is ok
- part: Division of a book
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- cross: Angry and upset
- think: To have an idea about something without certainty
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- site: Place that is reserved for a particular activity
- wreckage: Remaining parts of something that has been wrecked
- derail: (Of a train) to come off the railway tracks
- depart: To die
- earthquake: Heavy shaking of the ground due to natural forces
- oncoming: (E.g. of traffic) moving towards
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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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Minjane posted on 2026/01/19Tragically, a high-speed train crash in Spain claimed many lives, and this report dives into the details of the incident. You'll hear eyewitness accounts and learn about the emergency response, all while picking up useful vocabulary for discussing real-world events.
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