Vocabulary

  • future self: The person you will become in the future, often used in the context of making decisions that will benefit your future well-being.
  • grow on: To cause someone to begin to like
  • go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
  • keeping up: To understand what someone is saying
  • make ends meet: To manage to live on the money you have.
  • tune out: To stop paying attention to something; ignore
  • take in: To allow to enter; receive as a guest
  • stay afloat: To have enough money to pay what you owe; to survive financially.
  • in arrears: Being behind in paying bills, e.g. rent
  • used up: To use all of; consume
  • ask for help: To request assistance or support.
  • on to: Toward something; forward
  • in a flash: Extremely quickly; instantaneously.
  • in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
  • think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
  • in the moment: At the present time; now.
  • consume: To eat, drink, buy or use up something
  • day: A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
  • control: A device designed to operate a machine
  • live: To be alive
  • spend: To use money to pay for something
  • solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
  • bad: Not good; wrong
  • wealth: Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
  • pay: To give money for goods or work done
  • big: Popular
  • money: Coins or notes we use to pay for things
  • save: To make your computer keep a file
  • buy: To believe something; accept
  • rich: Having a lot of money or valuable possessions
  • realise: To become aware of or understand mentally
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    • ask for help

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      UK

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To request assistance or support.
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    • consume

      US /kənˈsum/

      UK /kən'sju:m/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To eat, drink, buy or use up something
      • To take all your energy; focus the attention
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    • future self

      US

      UK

      • Noun
      • The person you will become in the future, often used in the context of making decisions that will benefit your future well-being.
      • An idealized version of oneself that one aspires to become in the future.
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    • go out

      US /ɡo aʊt/

      UK /ɡəu aut/

      • Phrase
      • To leave a building (e.g. a house)
      • Phrasal Verb
      • (Of a fire) to burn out; be extinguished
      • Go out of fashion to stop being fashionable
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    • grow on

      US /ɡro ɑn/

      UK /ɡrəu ɔn/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To cause someone to begin to like
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    • in a flash

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      UK

      • Phrase
      • Extremely quickly; instantaneously.
      • Suddenly and unexpectedly.
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    • in arrears

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      UK

      • Phrase
      • Being behind in paying bills, e.g. rent
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    • in the moment

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      UK

      • Phrase
      • At the present time; now.
      • Spontaneously; without prior planning or consideration.
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    • in the world

      US /ɪn ði wɜrld/

      UK /in ðə wɜː(r)ld/

      • Phrase
      • Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
      • Used to indicate the extent or degree of something, often in a superlative sense.
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    • keeping up

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      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To understand what someone is saying
      • To move or progress at the same rate as someone or something else.
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    • make ends meet

      US

      UK

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To manage to live on the money you have.
      • Phrase
      • To earn just enough money to be able to pay for the things you need
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    • on to

      US /ɑn tu/

      UK /ɔn tu:/

      • Preposition
      • Toward something; forward
      • Aware of someone's activities.
      • Adjective
      • Aware of someone's deception or illegal activities.
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    • solution

      US /səˈluʃən/

      UK /səˈlu:ʃn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
      • Way to solve or deal with a problem
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    • spend

      US /spɛnd/

      UK /spend/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To use money to pay for something
      • To use time in order to do something
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    • stay afloat

      US

      UK

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To have enough money to pay what you owe; to survive financially.
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    • take in

      US

      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To allow to enter; receive as a guest
      • To include or add
      • Transitive Verb
      • To absorb (liquid).
      • To understand or comprehend something.
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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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    • tune out

      US /tun aʊt/

      UK /tju:n aut/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To stop paying attention to something; ignore
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    • used up

      US

      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To use all of; consume
      • Adjective
      • Exhausted or depleted.
      A1
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    • wealth

      US /wɛlθ/

      UK /welθ/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
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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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