Vocabulary

  • ring in: To call by telephone.
  • talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
  • full day: A complete day, from morning to night.
  • to the day: Exactly on the date specified, without any difference.
  • the following: Next in order or sequence.
  • in style: Fashionable; popular
  • have to: Must do
  • hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
  • tone down: To make something less forceful, intense, or extreme.
  • check out
  • stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
  • weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
  • sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
  • multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
  • stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
  • sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
  • strike: To hit something
  • awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
  • dumb: Senseless; stupid
  • previous: Existing or happening before the present time
  • stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
  • imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
  • exotic: Being very different or unusual
  • population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
  • huge: Very very large
  • cabin: Small basic wooden home in the countryside
  • actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
  • rave: A dance party with loud music
  • hell: Any place of pain and suffering
  • count: To add things together to find the total number
  • tone: Atmosphere or feeling in a message
  • bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
  • cliff: High, vertical or steep surface of rock or ice
  • important: Having power or authority
  • joint: Body parts where bones meet and can move together
  • crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
  • simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
  • presume: To assume that something is true till proven false
  • head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
  • marathon: Lasting for a long time
  • celebrate: To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
  • turn: To become (a particular age)
  • beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
  • front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
  • wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
  • hold: To agree to keep something for someone
  • season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
  • check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
  • problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
  • solstice: Time of year when sun is farthest away from Earth
  • diner: Person who dines; customer in restaurant
  • diving: To swim deep under water with an air supply
  • ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
  • skate: Flat sea fish
  • karaoke: Singing popular songs to a prerecorded soundtrack
  • midnight: 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
  • eve: The time just before something happens
  • disco: Public dance hall for dancing to popular music
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    • actual

      US /ˈæktʃuəl/

      UK /ˈæktʃuəl/

      • Adjective
      • Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
      • Current; existing at the present time.
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    • awful

      US /ˈɔfəl/

      UK /ˈɔ:fl/

      • Adjective
      • Very bad; horrible; terrible
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    • bear

      US /bɛr/

      UK /bɛː/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To accept (responsibilities or duties)
      • To give birth to a child; to produce fruit
      • Countable Noun
      • Large brown animal with fur that lives in forests
      • Someone who expects stock market to fall
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    • beg

      US /bɛɡ/

      UK /beg/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To ask someone in an emotional way for something
      • (Dog) to sit up to ask for something
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    • cabin

      US /ˈkæbɪn/

      UK /'kæbɪn/

      • Countable Noun
      • Small basic wooden home in the countryside
      • Room where you can sleep on a ship, sit in a plane
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    • celebrate

      US /ˈsɛləˌbret/

      UK /'selɪbreɪt/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
      • To lead or participate in a religious ceremony
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    • check out

      US /tʃɛk aʊt/

      UK /tʃek aut/

      • Phrase
      • Phrasal Verb
      • To find out information about something
      • To take books out of a library
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    • cliff

      US /klɪf/

      UK /klɪf/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • High, vertical or steep surface of rock or ice
      • A critical or dangerous situation.
      • Proper Noun
      • Person's name
      • A surname.
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    • count

      US /kaʊnt/

      UK /kaʊnt/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To add things together to find the total number
      • To matter or be important
      • Countable Noun
      • Number of things added together, e.g. votes
      • With the number of crimes, knockouts, as stated
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    • diner

      US /ˈdaɪnɚ/

      UK /ˈdaɪnə(r)/

      • Countable Noun
      • Person who dines; customer in restaurant
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    • disco

      US /ˈdɪsko/

      UK /'dɪskəʊ/

      • Countable Noun
      • Public dance hall for dancing to popular music
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    • diving

      US

      UK

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To swim deep under water with an air supply
      • To rapid fall through air
      • Uncountable Noun
      • Act of swimming underwater
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    • dumb

      US /dʌm/

      UK /dʌm/

      • Adjective
      • Senseless; stupid
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    • eve

      US /i:v/

      UK /i:v/

      • Noun
      • The time just before something happens
      • Day before a significant or special day
      • Proper Noun
      • Person's name
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    • exotic

      US /ɪɡ'zɑ:tɪk/

      UK /ɪɡ'zɒtɪk/

      • Adjective
      • Being very different or unusual
      • Strange because from a different area of the world
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    • full day

      US

      UK

      • Noun
      • A complete day, from morning to night.
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    • ghost

      US /goʊst/

      UK /gəʊst/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To write a book on behalf of another person
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Bad effects, memories, and feelings from the past
      • Spirit of a dead person, appearing to the living
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    • have to

      US /hæv tu/

      UK /ˈhæv tə/

      • Auxiliary Verb
      • Must do
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    • hell

      US /hɛl/

      UK /hel/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Any place of pain and suffering
      • A very unpleasant or difficult experience.
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    • hold on

      US /hold ɑn/

      UK /həuld ɔn/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
      • To wait for a short time.
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    • huge

      US /hjudʒ/

      UK /hju:dʒ/

      • Adjective
      • Very very large
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    • in style

      US

      UK

      • Adjective
      • Fashionable; popular
      B1
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    • joint

      US /dʒɔɪnt/

      UK /dʒɔɪnt/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Body parts where bones meet and can move together
      • Point at which two things meet (e.g. a road)
      • Adjective
      • Shared; involving working together; in common
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    • karaoke

      US /ˌkærɪ'oʊkɪ/

      UK /ˌkærɪ'əʊkɪ/

      • Noun
      • Singing popular songs to a prerecorded soundtrack
      C1
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    • marathon

      US /'mærəθɑ:n/

      UK /'mærəθən/

      • Adjective
      • Lasting for a long time
      • Countable Noun
      • Running race that is run over a distance of 42km
      • A long-lasting event, often involving endurance or persistence.
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    • midnight

      US /ˈmɪdˌnaɪt/

      UK /ˈmɪdnaɪt/

      • Noun
      • 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
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    • multiple

      US /ˈmʌltəpəl/

      UK /ˈmʌltɪpl/

      • Adjective
      • Having or involving more than one of something
      • Having or involving several parts, elements, or members.
      • Countable Noun
      • Number produced by multiplying a smaller number
      • A number of identical circuit elements connected in parallel or series.
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    • population

      US /ˌpɑpjəˈleʃən/

      UK /ˌpɒpjuˈleɪʃn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
      • A group of individuals of one species living in a particular area.
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    • presume

      US /prɪˈzu:m/

      UK /prɪˈzju:m/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To assume that something is true till proven false
      • To do something without having the right to do it
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    • previous

      US /ˈpriviəs/

      UK /ˈpri:viəs/

      • Adjective
      • Existing or happening before the present time
      • Existing or occurring immediately before in time or order.
      • Noun
      • A button or link that allows navigation to a preceding item or page.
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    • rave

      US /rev/

      UK /reɪv/

      • Countable Noun
      • A dance party with loud music
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To shower praise upon; speak very highly of
      • To speak or shout loudly, angrily or as if crazy
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    • ring in

      US

      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To call by telephone.
      • To celebrate the start of something, especially a new year.
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    • skate

      US /sket/

      UK /skeɪt/

      • Noun
      • Flat sea fish
      • Boot with a metal blade attached to the bottom
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To slide on ice wearing boots with a metal blade
      • To slide on a surface, e.g. ice
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    • solstice

      US /ˈsɑ:lstɪs/

      UK /ˈsɒlstɪs/

      • Noun
      • Time of year when sun is farthest away from Earth
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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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    • stretch

      US /strɛtʃ/

      UK /stretʃ/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
      • To make something bigger by pulling on it
      • Noun
      • Making arm, leg muscles longer to ease them
      • A consecutive row of things
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    • strike

      US /straɪk/

      UK /straɪk/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To hit something
      • To remove or erase.
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • A punch or hit
      • Fact of not hitting the ball when playing baseball
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    • stuff

      US /stʌf/

      UK /stʌf/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Generic description for things, materials, objects
      • Transitive Verb
      • To push material inside something, with force
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    • talking about

      US

      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To discuss a particular topic.
      • To be constantly mentioning or bringing up a subject.
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    • the following

      US

      UK

      • Adjective
      • Next in order or sequence.
      • Uncountable Noun
      • What is about to be said or written.
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    • to the day

      US /tu ðə deɪ/

      UK /tu ðə deɪ/

      • other
      • Exactly on the date specified, without any difference.
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    • tone

      US /toʊn/

      UK /təʊn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Atmosphere or feeling in a message
      • Firmness and strength of the body's muscles
      • Transitive Verb
      • To increase the quality of muscles by exercise
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    • tone down

      US /toʊn daʊn/

      UK /təun daun/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To make something less forceful, intense, or extreme.
      • To make something less forceful, offensive, or controversial.
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    • weird

      US /wɪrd/

      UK /wɪəd/

      • Adjective
      • Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
      • Eerily strange or disturbing.
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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/
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    adj.Brave
    v.t.To bravely face
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