Vocabulary
- in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
- care for: To want or desire a thing
- above all: Most importantly; more than anything else.
- bring to: To make someone to wake up from being unconscious
- call for: To demand, need or require (an action or thing)
- school of thought: A particular philosophy or set of beliefs; a way of thinking.
- entwined with: Closely connected or involved with something else.
- in key: Singing or playing notes correctly according to the musical key.
- out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
- tease out: To extract or obtain something with persistent effort, especially information.
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- instinct: Natural way of thinking; intuition
- overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
- acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
- reveal: To show something that was hidden before
- encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
- capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
- tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
- foremost: Being the best or most important
- align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
- influence: To affect or change something indirectly
- initial: First letter of your given name
- shift: To change in position or direction
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- notion: Sudden idea or desire to do something
- abstract: Passage of text from an article or book
- keen: Being eager or excited for something to happen
- disaster: State of extreme ruin and misfortune
- theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
- mature: Behaving like an adult
- result: Something produced through tests or experiments
- rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
- affection: Feeling of liking someone or something
- respect: To follow the established rules
- strive: To work hard/make effort to achieve something
- tease: To purposefully bother an animal
- vision: Ability to see; eyesight
- seek: To ask someone for help
- mutual: Shared between two or more people
- radically: Completely or extremely
- secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
- template: Shape that is used as a pattern to make something
- ideology: Ideas or beliefs which form theory and policy
- invariably: Each time without change; always
- preserve: To cook food so it can be kept for long periods
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- deprive: To deny someone access to or take away something
- destructive: Causing a very large amount of damage
- appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
- tenderness: Pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
- person: Man, woman or child
- sovereignty: The power a country has to decide for itself
- stand: To be a candidate in an election
- problematic: Being difficult to deal with or fix
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
- ecstasy: State of overwhelming happiness; joy
- carry: To have a child, be pregnant
- liberate: To free someone or something that was captured
- choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
- excessively: In a manner more than is necessary; too much
- parent: Person's, animal's mother or father
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- care: To feel interest, concern, or worry
- calculation: Process or result of using mathematics
- underwriting: To guarantee financial support or responsibility
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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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How To Choose A Partner Wisely
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Calvin Huang posted on 2017/05/24Ever wonder why you're drawn to certain people? This video dives deep into attachment theory and childhood patterns to help you understand how we choose partners, offering practical insights beyond just romanticism! You'll pick up advanced vocabulary related to relationship psychology and complex sentence structures that will really boost your English.
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