accumulation
US /əˌkjumjəˈleʃən/
UK /əˌkju:mjə'leɪʃn/
- Uncountable Noun
- Act of becoming bigger or more over time
- A collection of things that have been gathered over time.
B1Morebatch
US /bætʃ/
UK /bætʃ/
- Countable Noun
- Amount of something that is produced at one time
- A group of things made or done together
- Transitive Verb
- To combine or arrange together into a group
B2Morebill
US /bɪl/
UK /bɪl/
- Noun
- Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
- Sign or poster advertising something
- Transitive Verb
- To request payment by handing over an invoice
A2TOEICMorebring in
US /brɪŋ ɪn/
UK /briŋ in/
- Phrasal Verb
- To earn a certain amount of money or profits
- To add person into existing group, e.g. phone call
A1Morecatastrophic
US /ˌkætəˈstrɑfɪk/
UK /ˌkætə'strɒfɪk/
- Adjective
- Causing a lot of damage or suffering
B2Morecentral
US /ˈsɛntrəl/
UK /'sentrəl/
- Adjective
- Being in the middle
- Most significant or important
- Noun
- The central part of a country or region.
A2Morecoastline
US /ˈkoʊstlaɪn/
UK /ˈkəʊstlaɪn/
- Noun
- Area of sea alongside the land in an area
C1Morecorrespondent
US /ˌkɔrɪˈspɑndənt, ˌkɑr-/
UK /ˌkɒrəˈspɒndənt/
- Countable Noun
- Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
B1Morecounty
US /ˈkaʊnti/
UK /ˈkaʊnti/
- Noun
- Administrative region within a country or a state
A2Moredamage
US /ˈdæmɪdʒ/
UK /ˈdæmɪdʒ/
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Physical harm that is done to something
- Transitive Verb
- To harm physically; to hurt or break something
- To harm the reputation of someone.
A2TOEICMoredevastation
US /ˌdevəˈsteɪʃn/
UK /ˌdevəˈsteɪʃn/
- Uncountable Noun
- Act of ruining or destroying something
- A feeling of being extremely shocked and sad.
B1Moreemergency
US /ɪˈmɚdʒənsi/
UK /ɪ'mɜ:dʒənsɪ/
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Sudden event needing an immediate action
- A medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in placing the patient's health in serious jeopardy.
- Adjective
- Used in an emergency; for use when something dangerous happens.
- Designed for use in an emergency.
A2TOEICMoreevacuate
US /ɪˈvækjuˌet/
UK /ɪ'vækjʊeɪt/
- Transitive Verb
- To move people from dangerous to a safe places
B2Moreeventually
US /ɪˈvɛntʃuəli/
UK /ɪˈventʃuəli/
- Adverb
- After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
- At some later time; in the future
A2Moreflash
US /flæʃ/
UK /flæʃ/
- Intransitive Verb
- To appear suddenly and briefly
- To shine brightly very suddenly and briefly
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Sudden and brief appearance of something
- Light used by a camera to brighten the area
B1Moreflood
US /flʌd/
UK /flʌd/
- Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
- To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
- (Of liquid) to fill or cover something completely
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- A quick unexpectedly volume of something
- Large number of people or things arriving at once
B1Moreforecast
US /ˈfɔ:rkæst/
UK /ˈfɔ:kɑ:st/
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Prediction of some future thing, e.g. the weather
- A prediction or estimate of future events, especially weather.
- Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
- To predict some future thing, e.g. the weather
- Alternative past tense and past participle of 'forecast'.
B1TOEICMorefreeze
US /friz/
UK /fri:z/
- Intransitive Verb
- To harden to a solid below zero degrees
- Transitive Verb
- To store an item of food in a cold place
- To make someone to not want to communicate
A2Morefrost
US /frɔ:st/
UK /frɒst/
- Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
- To form ice on the surfaces in cold weather
- To cover something with a thin layer of ice
- Uncountable Noun
- Ice formed on the surfaces in cold weather
B1Morefurniture
US /ˈfɚnɪtʃɚ/
UK /ˈfɜ:nɪtʃə(r)/
- Uncountable Noun
- Items such as tables, chairs, beds or closets
A2TOEICMorehit with
US
UK
- Phrasal Verb
- To strike someone or something using an object.
- To suddenly realize or understand something.
A1Morein the middle of
US
UK
- Phrase
- In the central part or point of something.
- Engaged or occupied with something.
A2Moreinflatable
US /ɪnˈfletəbəl/
UK /ɪnˈfleɪtəbl/
- Adjective
- Designed to be filled with air or gas
B1Moreknock
US /nɑk/
UK /nɒk/
- Noun
- Bad experience that reduces a person's confidence
- Action of something solid hitting something hard
- Transitive Verb
- To criticize someone in an unreasonable way
- To hit something to get people's attention
A2Morelinger
US /ˈlɪŋɡɚ/
UK /ˈlɪŋgə(r)/
- Intransitive Verb
- To take your time doing something; hang around
B2Morelook at
US /lʊk æt/
UK /luk æt/
- Phrasal Verb
- To use your eyes to focus on something
- To focus your eyes on something carefully
A1Morenational
US /ˈnæʃənəl, ˈnæʃnəl/
UK /'næʃnəl/
- Adjective
- Concerning a nation as a whole
- Countable Noun
- A person of a particular country
A2Morenorthern
US
UK
- Adjective
- In or toward the north
- Coming from the north.
- Noun
- A person who comes from the north.
- The Aurora Borealis.
B1Moreover to
US
UK
- Preposition
- Used to hand over to someone else to speak
- The responsibility is now yours
propane
US /ˈproˌpen/
UK /ˈprəʊpeɪn/
- Uncountable Noun
- Colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum
C1Moreradar
US /ˈredɑr/
UK /ˈreɪdɑ:(r)/
- Noun
- Radio device used to find the location of objects
B2Moreraft
US /ræft/
UK /rɑ:ft/
- Countable Noun
- Pieces of wood tied together as a kind of boat
B2Morerescue
US /ˈrɛskju/
UK /'reskju:/
- Transitive Verb
- To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
- To provide financial assistance to save a company or economy from collapse.
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Act of saving someone in danger or in trouble
- An act of saving someone or something from a dangerous or difficult situation.
A2TOEICMorerob
US /rɑb/
UK /rɒb/
- Proper Noun
- Person's name
- Transitive Verb
- To steal money or property from (bank or person)
- To prevent from getting something deserved
A2Moreroof
US /ruf,rʊf/
UK /ru:f/
- Noun
- Top of the inside a tunnel, cave, mouth etc.
- Cover or top of a building or car
- Transitive Verb
- To place a cover or top onto a building, vehicle
A2Morerye
US /raɪ/
UK /raɪ/
- Uncountable Noun
- Type of grain used to make flour for certain bread
C1Moresoutheastern
US /ˌsaʊθ'i:stən/
UK /saʊθ'i:stən/
- Adjective
- Area in the south and east
B2Morestuff
US /stʌf/
UK /stʌf/
- Uncountable Noun
- Generic description for things, materials, objects
- Transitive Verb
- To push material inside something, with force
B1Moresubmerge
US /səbˈmɚdʒ/
UK /səb'mɜ:dʒ/
- Transitive Verb
- To sink or put below the surface
B2TOEICMoresurround
US /səˈraʊnd/
UK /səˈraʊnd/
- Transitive Verb
- To be all the way around something
- To be closely connected to and have an effect on
- Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
- To be closely connected to and have an effect on
A2Morevideo
US /ˈvɪdiˌo/
UK /'vɪdɪəʊ/
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Recording capturing action with sound
- A recording of moving visual images made digitally or on videotape.
- Transitive Verb
- To make a moving film of, with sound
- To make a video call.
A2Morewith a vengeance
US /wɪð ə ˈvɛndʒəns/
UK /wɪð ə ˈvendʒəns/
- other
- With great force, intensity, or energy.
C1More
Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
- hit with: To strike someone or something using an object.
- bring in: To earn a certain amount of money or profits
- with a vengeance: With great force, intensity, or energy.
- over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
- situation: Place, position or area that something is in
- force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- catastrophic: Causing a lot of damage or suffering
- state: Region within a country, with its own government
- suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
- linger: To take your time doing something; hang around
- furniture: Items such as tables, chairs, beds or closets
- emergency: Sudden event needing an immediate action
- record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
- correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
- leave: To go away from; depart
- rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- bill: Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
- hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
- evacuate: To move people from dangerous to a safe places
- batch: Amount of something that is produced at one time
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
- flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
- damage: Physical harm that is done to something
- bring: To take or go with someone to a place
- rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
- surround: To be all the way around something
- forecast: Prediction of some future thing, e.g. the weather
- central: Being in the middle
- devastation: Act of ruining or destroying something
- roof: Top of the inside a tunnel, cave, mouth etc.
- freeze: To harden to a solid below zero degrees
- knock: Bad experience that reduces a person's confidence
- accumulation: Act of becoming bigger or more over time
- flash: To appear suddenly and briefly
- frost: To form ice on the surfaces in cold weather
- raft: Pieces of wood tied together as a kind of boat
- rob: Person's name
- coastline: Area of sea alongside the land in an area
- submerge: To sink or put below the surface
- northern: In or toward the north
- radar: Radio device used to find the location of objects
- rye: Type of grain used to make flour for certain bread
- video: Recording capturing action with sound
- national: Concerning a nation as a whole
- inflatable: Designed to be filled with air or gas
- county: Administrative region within a country or a state
- propane: Colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum
- southeastern: Area in the south and east
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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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林宜悉 posted on 2026/11/06See how recent record-breaking floods have impacted communities in Georgia and Tennessee as news crews report from the front lines. You will get a first-hand look at emergency rescue operations while picking up useful vocabulary related to severe weather, such as flash flood warnings and disaster recovery.
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