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Vocabulary

  • look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
  • word: Unit of language that has a meaning
  • easier: Less difficult than
  • language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
  • study: To focus on learning something usually at school
  • book: (Police) to officially record someone's crimes
  • website: Collection of webpages in one location
  • lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
  • daughter: A female child of someone
  • student: Person studying at school
  • catch: Amount of something that has been caught
  • teach: To help someone learn or do something
  • blue: Color of the clear sky
  • write: To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
  • group: Two or more musicians who play music together
  • letter: One of the 26 parts of the English alphabet
  • sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
  • foreign: Being of a different place or country
  • pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
  • blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
  • video: Recording capturing action with sound
  • sofa: Two to three person soft comfortable chair
  • receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
  • heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
  • journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
  • beginning: To do the first part of an action; to start
  • pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
  • pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
  • vowel: A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
  • burn: To destroy with fire
  • act: To behave in a certain way
  • familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
  • law: Field of study that relates to the legal profession
  • trouble: To worry, bother or disturb someone
  • worth: the financial, practical or moral value of somebody/something
  • system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
  • occur: To come to pass or to happen
  • symbol: Image that means or represents something
  • necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
  • represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
  • handy: Convenient, easy to use, easy to reach
  • phonetic: Concerning the sounds of languages
  • ih: Initialism for induction heating, a method of heating electrically conductive materials.
  • ur: An ancient city in Mesopotamia, located in modern-day Iraq.
  • aa: Acronym for Automobile Association
  • schwa: A neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
  • notation: Set of written signs are used in music or math
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    • blood

      US /blʌd/

      UK /blʌd/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
      • Related by birth; family
      • Transitive Verb
      • To be initiated into something, e.g. a secret club
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    • familiar

      US /fəˈmɪljɚ/

      UK /fəˈmɪliə(r)/

      • Adjective
      • Well-known or easily recognized
      • Having a good knowledge of something.
      • Noun
      • A close friend or associate.
      • (In folklore) a spirit, often in animal form, believed to attend and serve a witch.
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    • foreign

      US /ˈfɔ:rən/

      UK /ˈfɒrən/

      • Adjective
      • Being of a different place or country
      • Strange; different from ones found at home
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    • handy

      US /ˈhændi/

      UK /'hændɪ/

      • Adjective
      • Convenient, easy to use, easy to reach
      • Being skillful in performing small tasks
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    • heat

      US /hit/

      UK /hi:t/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • State of anger, excitement, or arguing
      • Particular temperature at which to cook something
      • Transitive Verb
      • To make hot or hotter
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    • journey

      US /ˈdʒɚni/

      UK /'dʒɜ:nɪ/

      • Noun
      • Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To travel through a place
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    • look at

      US /lʊk æt/

      UK /luk æt/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To use your eyes to focus on something
      • To focus your eyes on something carefully
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    • necessarily

      US /ˌnɛsɪˈsɛrəli, -ˈsɛr-/

      UK /ˌnesəˈserəli/

      • Adverb
      • In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
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    • notation

      US /noˈteʃən/

      UK /nəʊ'teɪʃn/

      • Noun
      • Set of written signs are used in music or math
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    • occur

      US /əˈkɚ/

      UK /əˈkɜ:(r)/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To come to pass or to happen
      • To be found to exist; to be present.
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    • phonetic

      US /fəˈnɛtɪk/

      UK /fəˈnetɪk/

      • Adjective
      • Concerning the sounds of languages
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    • pronounce

      US /prəˈnaʊns/

      UK /prə'naʊns/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To state something in a legal or official way
      • To give your opinion or decision about something
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    • pronunciation

      US /prəˌnʌnsiˈeʃən/

      UK /prəˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • How a word is said; how a word sounds
      • The manner in which someone utters a word.
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    • represent

      US /ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt/

      UK /ˌreprɪ'zent/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
      • To show or describe something in a particular way
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    • sofa

      US /ˈsofə/

      UK /'səʊfə/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Two to three person soft comfortable chair
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    • symbol

      US /ˈsɪmbəl/

      UK /'sɪmbl/

      • Noun
      • Image that means or represents something
      • An image that represents a message of some kind
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    • trouble

      US /ˈtrʌbəl/

      UK /ˈtrʌbl/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To worry, bother or disturb someone
      • To make an effort to do something; bother
      • Uncountable Noun
      • Lack of public order; disturbance
      • State of difficulty or stress
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    • video

      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.
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    • vowel

      US /ˈvaʊəl/

      UK /ˈvaʊəl/

      • Countable Noun
      • A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
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    • worth

      US /wɚθ/

      UK /wɜ:θ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • the financial, practical or moral value of somebody/something
      • having a particular value, especially in money
      • Adjective
      • Having a specified value.
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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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    American English Vowels - IPA - Pronunciation - Interntional Phonetic Alphabet

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