Vocabulary
- lay off: To stop troubling or hitting someone
- catch up: To become equal with another person
- request for: A formal application or appeal for something.
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
- capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
- expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
- roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
- comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
- bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
- response: Something said/written as an answer to something
- productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
- secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
- giant: Tall, large, and powerful human-like creatures
- trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
- platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
- social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
- technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
- offset: To compensate for or counterbalance the effect of
- lay: Amateur; not being a trained priest
- workforce: The total number of working people
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
- announce: To make a public statement about a plan, decision
- link: Any one of the rings that are part of a chain
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- theoretical: Concerning the unproved aspects of a subject
- speculative: Not based on sure knowledge; based on intuition
- datum: Item of factual information
- report: Account of the necessary facts and information
- heavily: In a slow, loud manner
- need: To be unable to manage without something; require
- globally: Throughout the world
- cloud: To confuse the mind/judgment of a person
- run: To depart or travel according to a schedule
- heavy: Greater in amount, degree, or severity than usual
- restructure: To change or organize something in a different way
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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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Meta shares jump after Reuters report on plans for layoffs
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林宜悉 posted on 2026/03/16Ever wondered what happens when tech giants like Meta make big changes? This video dives into the recent news about Meta's potential layoffs and massive spending on AI, giving you a real-world look at the business world. You'll pick up essential vocabulary related to restructuring and capital spending, perfect for understanding complex sentence structures in action!
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