Vocabulary

  • quick question: A brief and simple inquiry.
  • breaks down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
  • get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
  • out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
  • out there: In or to a place that is far away
  • regardless of
  • think about: To consider something carefully.
  • wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
  • study: To focus on learning something usually at school
  • people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
  • go: To attend or be at a place
  • to: Toward a point, person, place or thing
  • nice: Being attractive or of high quality or value
  • question: To ask for or try to get information
  • smoking: The act of enjoying cigarettes, pipes, cigars, etc.
  • age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
  • draw: To attract attention to someone or something
  • close: Almost; near
  • quick: Using very little time; moving far in little time
  • girl: A female child; a young woman
  • work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
  • small: Little in size; not big
  • storm: To act violently or angrily
  • fashion: Style of dress or activity popular at some time
  • police: People, often in uniforms, who solve crimes
  • rock: To be greatly upset by something, e.g. a death
  • lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
  • break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
  • comfortable: Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
  • size: How big or small a thing is
  • add: To include as well
  • large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
  • happen: To take place or occur
  • idea: Belief, thought, suggestion, opinion or plan
  • high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
  • real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
  • breast: Fleshy part of a woman's body for feeding babies
  • tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
  • benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
  • pregnancy: When a woman carries her unborn baby inside her
  • convenient: Allowing you to do something with less trouble
  • unnecessary: Being more than needed or not needed
  • weigh: To balance things against each other
  • connect: To associate a thing with something else
  • support: To give assistance or advice to someone
  • annoying: To make someone angry
  • scientist: Person who is trained in a science
  • chest: Strong, lidded container for storing things
  • confuse: To make something unclear or hard to understand
  • publish: To prepare and make available a book magazine etc.
  • stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
  • bra: Woman’s undergarment worn to support the breasts
  • medically: As regards medical matters
  • bounce: A person's energy or confidence
  • determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
  • expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
  • prevention: Act of stopping something bad from happening
  • irrelevant: Not important; not related to the topic
  • researcher: Someone who works to find new facts and ideas
  • substitute: To perform the tasks instead of someone else
  • genetics: Studies of how things develop between generations
  • representative: Typical example of a particular category
  • beneficial: Giving an advantage, having a helpful effect
  • sample: To try (e.g. food, drink), to see if you like it
  • pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
  • cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
  • inevitable: That must happen; certain to happen
  • booby: Ignorant or foolish person
  • slingshot: Loop of leather used as a weapon to throw stones
  • snug: Warm and comfortable; cozy, as in a small room
  • boob: Breast (vulgar)
  • shit: A coarse term for defecation
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    • annoying

      US /əˈnɔɪɪŋ/

      UK /əˈnɔɪɪŋ/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To make someone angry
      • Adjective
      • A little angry; upset
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    • beneficial

      US /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl/

      UK /ˌbenɪˈfɪʃl/

      • Adjective
      • Giving an advantage, having a helpful effect
      • Promoting or contributing to physical or mental well-being.
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    • benefit

      US /ˈbɛnəfɪt/

      UK /'benɪfɪt/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Good result or effect, something advantageous
      • A payment made by the state or an insurance policy to someone
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To have a good effect or be helpful
      • To receive an advantage; to be helped
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    • bounce

      US /baʊns/

      UK /baʊns/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • A person's energy or confidence
      • Quality causing a person's hair to appear healthy
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To move around energetically, playfully
      • (Of check) to be rejected due to inadequate funds
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    • bra

      US /brɑ/

      UK /brɑ:/

      • Noun
      • Woman’s undergarment worn to support the breasts
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    • breaks down

      US

      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
      • (Machine) to stop working or become weaker
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    • breast

      US /brɛst/

      UK /brest/

      • Countable Noun
      • Fleshy part of a woman's body for feeding babies
      • (Poetic) upper front part of the body; the heart
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    • cause

      US /kɔz/

      UK /kɔ:z/

      • Noun
      • Belief, goal or organization that people support
      • Reason for
      • Transitive Verb
      • To make something happen; create effect or result
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    • chest

      US /tʃɛst/

      UK /tʃest/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Strong, lidded container for storing things
      • Front of the body between neck and stomach
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    • comfortable

      US /ˈkʌmfətəbəl, ˈkʌmftəbəl/

      UK /ˈkʌmftəbl/

      • Adjective
      • Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
      • Being relaxed, warm or happy
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    • confuse

      US /kənˈfjuz/

      UK /kənˈfju:z/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To make something unclear or hard to understand
      • To mistake one person or thing for another.
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    • connect

      US /kəˈnɛkt/

      UK /kə'nekt/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To associate a thing with something else
      • To join or attach things together
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    • convenient

      US /kənˈvinjənt/

      UK /kənˈvi:niənt/

      • Adjective
      • Allowing you to do something with less trouble
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    • determine

      US /dɪˈtɚmɪn/

      UK /dɪ'tɜ:mɪn/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To control exactly how something will be or act
      • To establish the facts about; discover
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    • expand

      US /ɪkˈspænd/

      UK /ɪk'spænd/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To make something larger in size, number, amount
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    • fashion

      US /ˈfæʃən/

      UK /'fæʃn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Style of dress or activity popular at some time
      • Industry that creates new styles of clothes
      • Transitive Verb
      • To make things into a particular shape
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    • genetics

      US /dʒəˈnɛtɪks/

      UK /dʒəˈnetɪks/

      • Noun (plural)
      • Studies of how things develop between generations
      • Uncountable Noun
      • The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
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    • get out of

      US /ɡɛt aʊt ʌv/

      UK /ɡet aut ɔv/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
      • To leave a small, enclosed vehicle
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    • inevitable

      US /ɪnˈɛvɪtəbəl/

      UK /ɪnˈevɪtəbl/

      • Adjective
      • That must happen; certain to happen
      • Sure to occur or happen
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • A situation that is unavoidable
      • Things that cannot be avoided
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    • irrelevant

      US /ɪˈrɛləvənt/

      UK /ɪˈreləvənt/

      • Adjective
      • Not important; not related to the topic
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    • lie

      US /lai/

      UK /laɪ/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To be in a horizontal or flat position
      • To say something that you know is not true
      • Countable Noun
      • An untrue statement, when you know it is not true
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    • medically

      US /ˈmɛdɪklɪ/

      UK /'medɪklɪ/

      • Adverb
      • As regards medical matters
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    • out of control

      US /aʊt ʌv kənˈtrol/

      UK /aut ɔv kənˈtrəul/

      • Adjective
      • Impossible to manage or control.
      • Not able to be directed or steered.
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    • out there

      US /aʊt ðɛr/

      UK /aut ðɛə/

      • Adverb
      • In or to a place that is far away
      • Existing in the universe
      • Adjective
      • Unconventional; strange; avant-garde
      • Existing or available.
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    • pregnancy

      US /ˈprɛɡnənsi/

      UK /ˈpregnənsi/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • When a woman carries her unborn baby inside her
      • A specific instance or period of being pregnant.
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    • pretend

      US /prɪˈtɛnd/

      UK /prɪ'tend/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To act as if something is true when it is not
      • Adjective
      • Not real; imaginary.
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    • prevention

      US /prɪˈvɛnʃən/

      UK /prɪˈvenʃn/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Act of stopping something bad from happening
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    • publish

      US /ˈpʌblɪʃ/

      UK /'pʌblɪʃ/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To prepare and make available a book magazine etc.
      • To release information to the general public
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    • quick question

      US

      UK

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • A brief and simple inquiry.
      • Phrase
      • An introductory phrase indicating a question requiring a prompt answer.
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    • regardless of

      US /rɪˈɡɑrdlɪs ʌv/

      UK /riˈɡɑ:dlis ɔv/

      • Phrase
      • Preposition
      • Without being affected or influenced by something; despite.
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    • representative

      US /ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv/

      UK /ˌreprɪˈzentətɪv/

      • Noun
      • Typical example of a particular category
      • Politician who acts on behalf of the people
      • Adjective
      • Acting or speaking for other people
      • Typical of a particular group or thing
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    • researcher

      US / rɪˈsətʃɚ/

      UK /rɪ'sɜ:tʃə(r)/

      • Noun
      • Someone who works to find new facts and ideas
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    • sample

      US /ˈsæmpl/

      UK /ˈsɑ:mpl/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To try (e.g. food, drink), to see if you like it
      • Noun
      • A small quantity of something used as a taster
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    • scientist

      US /ˈsaɪəntɪst/

      UK /ˈsaɪəntɪst/

      • Countable Noun
      • Person who is trained in a science
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    • slingshot

      US /ˈslɪŋˌʃɑt/

      UK /ˈslɪŋʃɒt/

      • Noun
      • Loop of leather used as a weapon to throw stones
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    • smoking

      US /ˈsmokɪŋ/

      UK /'sməʊkɪŋ/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • The act of enjoying cigarettes, pipes, cigars, etc.
      • The act of breathing smoke from cigarettes
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
      • To breathe in through a cigarette, etc.
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    • snug

      US /snʌɡ/

      UK /snʌɡ/

      • Adjective
      • Warm and comfortable; cozy, as in a small room
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    • stress

      US / strɛs/

      UK /stres/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
      • To put pressure on something or someone
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Emphasis on part of a word or sentence
      • Pressure on something or someone
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    • substitute

      US /ˈsʌbstɪˌtut, -ˌtjut/

      UK /'sʌbstɪtju:t/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To perform the tasks instead of someone else
      • To replace one person or thing for another
      • Noun
      • A person or thing acting in place of another
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    • think about

      US /θɪŋk əˈbaʊt/

      UK /θiŋk əˈbaut/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To consider something carefully.
      • To remember or call to mind.
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    • tissue

      US /ˈtɪʃu/

      UK /ˈtɪʃu:/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
      • Kind of thin, light paper used to pack objects
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    • unnecessary

      US /ʌnˈnesəseri/

      UK /ʌnˈnesəsəri/

      • Adjective
      • Being more than needed or not needed
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    • weigh

      US /weɪ/

      UK /weɪ/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To balance things against each other
      • To consider something carefully to form an opinion
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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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