Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- rely on: To depend on someone or something
- in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- sniff out: To discover something by using your nose; to detect or find something.
- social bonding: The development of close interpersonal relationships.
- individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
- incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
- empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
- realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
- evolve: To develop certain features
- intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
- necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
- interact: To talk or do things with each other
- variety: Particular type of thing or person
- exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
- psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
- relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
- hierarchy: Group that manages and controls an organization
- bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
- mechanism: Part of a machine that performs a certain function
- concern: To be about a particular topic
- personality: Way someone is or reacts to life or other people
- physically: In a manner related to the body
- response: Something said/written as an answer to something
- cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
- remarkable: Interesting and unexpected, worthy of notice
- form: Sports team or person's current winning record
- evolution: Theory that living things change over time
- reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
- sniff: To detect something, e.g. a potential problem
- infant: Child in the beginning stage of life; a baby
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- autism: Disorder that prevents normal communication
- social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
- rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
- genius: Person displaying a high level of intelligence
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- companionship: Good feeling from being with someone else
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- great: Very good; better than before
- cooperate: To work together with, to assist someone
- understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
- case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- enrich: To make someone or something better
- begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
- special: Being additional or extra
- domesticate: To train an animal as a pet or to do work; tame
- endanger: To bring a person/thing into a dangerous situation
- hijack: To take control of a plane, etc. by force
- wolf: A dog-like wild animal
- newborn: Having just/recently arisen or come into existence
- communicator: Person expressing ideas, thoughts and feelings
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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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Dogs Have a 'Special Genius'
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Liang Chen posted on 2019/04/29Did you know dogs have a 'special genius' and co-evolved with us? Dive into the fascinating science behind dog intelligence, domestication, and the incredible emotional bonds we share, and pick up some advanced vocabulary along the way!
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