Vocabulary

  • hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
  • in danger: Exposed to the risk of harm, injury, or loss.
  • ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
  • miserable: Very unhappy
  • ordinary: Normal or usual
  • universe: All of space that contains planets and stars
  • glamorous: Attractive in a sexy way; exciting; alluring
  • responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
  • giant: Tall, large, and powerful human-like creatures
  • couple: To join something to something else
  • beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
  • pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
  • defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
  • unexpected: Surprising because it was not expected
  • rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
  • appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
  • distant: Unfriendly; cold
  • normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
  • leave: To go away from; depart
  • destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
  • smash: Accident involving vehicles
  • foul: Terrible in smell, taste, appearance or morals
  • tight: Showing anxiety or anger; tense
  • scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
  • sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
  • learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
  • boom: Very fast increase in growth or popularity
  • quit: To leave a job
  • find: To become aware of something that is happening
  • frozen: Hard, solid because it is below zero degrees
  • laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
  • carnival: Traveling amusement show with rides and sideshows
  • customer: Someone who buys goods or services from a business
  • borrow: To take and later return something from another
  • wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
  • evil: Act considered morally bad
  • gasp: To take a short quick breath because of surprise
  • hold: To agree to keep something for someone
  • carry: To have a child, be pregnant
  • vendor: Person who sells things, usually on the street
  • frost: To form ice on the surfaces in cold weather
  • roar: To laugh in a loud and continuous manner
  • shiver: Act of shaking from fear or cold
  • coaster: Mat placed under a glass to protect furniture
  • meteorologist: Specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions
  • veggie: Shortened form of vegetable
  • clatter: To make a rattling noise, as when something falls
  • weather: Whether it is raining, sunny, cold etc. outside
  • people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
  • mechanical: Done without thought or feeling; automatic
  • plan: Drawing of how something should be done or made
  • thud: Dull noise, as of something heavy falling
  • unnatural: Not being what you would expect; not normal
  • thee: An old-fashioned word for you
  • spider: Small creature with 8 legs that spins cobwebs
  • whoosh: Sound made when something moves quickly past you
  • clang: To make or cause a loud ringing sound from a bell
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    • beat

      US /bit/

      UK /bi:t/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To move in regular motions in order to push blood
      • Transitive Verb
      • To strike or hit repeatedly and with great force
      • To mix ingredients together with a fork or machine
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    • boom

      US /bum/

      UK /bu:m/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Very fast increase in growth or popularity
      • A very loud and deep sound
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To experience a rapid increase in growth
      • To make a very loud and deep sound
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    • borrow

      US /ˈbɑ:roʊ/

      UK /ˈbɒrəʊ/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To take and later return something from another
      • To carry one number to another column when adding
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    • carnival

      US /ˈkɑrnəvəl/

      UK /'kɑ:nɪvl/

      • Noun
      • Traveling amusement show with rides and sideshows
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    • clang

      US /klæŋ/

      UK /klæŋ/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To make or cause a loud ringing sound from a bell
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    • clatter

      US /ˈklætɚ/

      UK /'klætə(r)/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To make a rattling noise, as when something falls
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    • coaster

      US /ˈkoʊstə(r)/

      UK /ˈkəʊstə(r)/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Mat placed under a glass to protect furniture
      • A sled or small vehicle without motor for coasting downhill.
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    • couple

      US /ˈkʌpəl/

      UK /'kʌpl/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To join something to something else
      • (Two animals) to engage in sexual relations
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Two people in a romantic relationship
      • Two of something; two people; a pair
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    • customer

      US /ˈkʌstəmɚ/

      UK /ˈkʌstəmə(r)/

      • Countable Noun
      • Someone who buys goods or services from a business
      • A person or organization that buys products or services from a business.
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    • defeat

      US /dɪˈfit/

      UK /dɪ'fi:t/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To beat an enemy, team, disease
      • To prevent something from succeeding.
      • Noun
      • When you lose a fight, game or competition
      • The feeling of having been beaten.
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    • destroy

      US /dɪˈstrɔɪ/

      UK /dɪ'strɔɪ/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To damage so badly that something no longer exists
      • To defeat someone or something easily
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    • distant

      US /ˈdɪstənt/

      UK /'dɪstənt/

      • Adjective
      • Unfriendly; cold
      • Existing or happening far away in place or time
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    • evil

      US /ˈivəl/

      UK /'i:vl/

      • Countable Noun
      • Act considered morally bad
      • Adjective
      • Morally bad; causing harm to people
      • Profoundly immoral and wicked.
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    • foul

      US /faʊl/

      UK /faʊl/

      • Adjective
      • Terrible in smell, taste, appearance or morals
      • Dirty or filthy.
      • Noun
      • An unfair or illegal act, especially in sports.
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    • frost

      US /frɔ:st/

      UK /frɒst/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To form ice on the surfaces in cold weather
      • To cover something with a thin layer of ice
      • Uncountable Noun
      • Ice formed on the surfaces in cold weather
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    • frozen

      US /ˈfroʊzn/

      UK /'frəʊzn/

      • Adjective
      • Hard, solid because it is below zero degrees
      • Preserved by freezing.
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To store an item of food in a cold place
      • To make someone to not want to communicate
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    • gasp

      US /ɡæsp/

      UK /ɡɑ:sp/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To take a short quick breath because of surprise
      • Noun
      • A short quick breath because of surprise, shock
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    • giant

      US /ˈdʒaɪənt/

      UK /'dʒaɪənt/

      • Countable Noun
      • Tall, large, and powerful human-like creatures
      • Very successful, powerful person or organization
      • Adjective
      • Very large, or much bigger than other things
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    • glamorous

      US /ˈɡlæmərəs/

      UK /ˈglæmərəs/

      • Adjective
      • Attractive in a sexy way; exciting; alluring
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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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    • in danger

      US /ɪn ˈdendʒɚ/

      UK /in ˈdeindʒə/

      • Phrase
      • Exposed to the risk of harm, injury, or loss.
      • At risk of experiencing something negative or harmful.
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    • mechanical

      US /mɪˈkænɪkəl/

      UK /məˈkænɪkl/

      • Adjective
      • Done without thought or feeling; automatic
      • Using or concerning machines
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    • miserable

      US /ˈmɪzərəbəl, ˈmɪzrə-/

      UK /ˈmɪzrəbl/

      • Adjective
      • Very unhappy
      • Causing someone to be unhappy or uncomfortable
      • Noun
      • A person who is always unhappy or complaining
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    • ordinary

      US /ˈɔ:rdneri/

      UK /'ɔ:dnrɪ/

      • Adjective
      • Normal or usual
      • Of the rank of ordinary seaman.
      • Noun
      • An ecclesiastical judge or official having ordinary jurisdiction in a given area.
      • Any of several simple and basic geometrical figures.
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    • pleasure

      US /ˈplɛʒɚ/

      UK /'pleʒə(r)/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
      • A thing that causes enjoyment or delight.
      • Transitive Verb
      • To give someone pleasure or satisfaction.
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    • quit

      US /kwɪt/

      UK /kwɪt/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To leave a job
      • To leave a place
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To leave a school etc. without finishing
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    • rescue

      US /ˈrɛskju/

      UK /'reskju:/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
      • To provide financial assistance to save a company or economy from collapse.
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Act of saving someone in danger or in trouble
      • An act of saving someone or something from a dangerous or difficult situation.
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    • responsible

      US / rɪˈspɑnsəbəl/

      UK /rɪ'spɒnsəbl/

      • Adjective
      • Being the cause of something that has occurred
      • Having the duty of dealing with something
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    • roar

      US /rɔr, ror/

      UK /rɔ:(r)/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To laugh in a loud and continuous manner
      • To shout using a loud deep powerful voice
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • A very loud, deep or hearty laugh
      • A very loud deep powerful shout
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    • ruin

      US /ˈruɪn/

      UK /'ru:ɪn/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To damage or completely destroy something
      • To cause someone to lose their money or status
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Remains of a building that has been destroyed
      • The state of being destroyed or severely damaged.
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    • scream

      US /skrim/

      UK /skri:m/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To make a sudden loud, high sound
      • Noun
      • A sudden loud, high-pitched noise
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    • shiver

      US /ˈʃɪvɚ/

      UK /ˈʃɪvə(r)/

      • Noun
      • Act of shaking from fear or cold
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To shake from fear or cold
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    • smash

      US /smæʃ/

      UK /smæʃ/

      • Noun
      • Accident involving vehicles
      • Sound when something breaks into pieces loudly
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To break into pieces
      • To defeat someone completely
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    • spider

      US /ˈspaɪdɚ/

      UK /ˈspaɪdə(r)/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Small creature with 8 legs that spins cobwebs
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    • thee

      US /ði/

      UK /ði:/

      • Pronoun
      • An old-fashioned word for you
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    • thud

      US /θʌd/

      UK /θʌd/

      • Noun
      • Dull noise, as of something heavy falling
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To make a dull noise often from falling heavily
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    • tight

      US /taɪt/

      UK /taɪt/

      • Adjective
      • Showing anxiety or anger; tense
      • Positioned physically close together
      • Adverb
      • Firmly; so it can't move
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    • unexpected

      US /ˌʌnɪkˈspektɪd/

      UK /ˌʌnɪkˈspektɪd/

      • Adjective
      • Surprising because it was not expected
      • Noun
      • An event or occurrence that was not anticipated.
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    • universe

      US /ˈjunəˌvɚs/

      UK /ˈju:nɪvɜ:s/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • All of space that contains planets and stars
      • Things surrounding a person, affecting their life
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    • unnatural

      US /ʌnˈnætʃərəl/

      UK /ʌnˈnætʃrəl/

      • Adjective
      • Not being what you would expect; not normal
      • Being different from anything occurring in nature
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    • vendor

      US /ˈvɛndɚ/

      UK /ˈvendə(r)/

      • Noun
      • Person who sells things, usually on the street
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    • whoosh

      US /hwuʃ, wuʃ, hwʊʃ, wʊʃ/

      UK /wʊʃ/

      • Interjection
      • Sound made when something moves quickly past you
      • Intransitive Verb
      • Gush or squirt out
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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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