Vocabulary
- pass through: To experience something, often unpleasant or difficult.
- act on: To have an effect on something.
- tighten up: To make stricter or more secure.
- just kind of: Used to express a feeling or state in a vague or hesitant way.
- back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
- at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
- kill me: An exaggerated expression of frustration or annoyance.
- have to: Must do
- got to: To arrive at some place
- to death: Extremely; to a great degree
- go forth: To begin or proceed with something, especially after hesitation or delay.
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- coffee: A brown drink made from roasted beans and water
- cup: Small round container used for drinking
- slow: Lacking activity, busyness or excitement
- body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
- drink: To put water in your body through your mouth
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- morning: Early part of the day before 12 p.m
- leave: To go away from; depart
- present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
- drinker: Someone who drinks; someone who likes alcohol
- small: Little in size; not big
- sugar: Substance which the body stores or uses for energy
- home: House, apartment or building to be rented or sold
- cat: Household pet with fur, four legs and long tail.
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
- kill: To cause someone to experience a lot of pain
- flight: Act of leaving a place, usually to escape danger
- pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
- kilogram: 1000g
- science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
- noticeable: Being easy or likely to be sensed or noticed
- heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
- stomach: Place in the body where food is processed
- turn: To become (a particular age)
- lion: Large wild cats from Africa and south Asia
- story: One of many floors or levels in a building
- decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
- high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
- nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
- amount: Quantity of something
- fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
- system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
- effect: An advantage, benefit
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- human: A person; a man, woman or child
- tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
- prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
- flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
- awake: To make aware of (a certain feeling or memory)
- shake: To cause someone to be surprised or upset
- reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
- user: Person that uses a service/thing, e.g. a website
- volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
- bind: To cover a wound, as with a bandage
- addiction: Lack of control the overuse of something e.g. drugs
- drug: Illegal substance taken for effect on the mind
- literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
- tighten: To make a rule, law or system tougher
- interior: Part of country that is far from the border, coast
- liver: Organ from animals served as food
- stimulate: To arouse or excite emotionally
- wisely: In an intelligent manner
- dose: An amount of medicine to be taken at any one time
- boost: To increase something; to make something better
- transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
- addict: Person who can’t control their overuse of a thing
- barrier: Difficult situation preventing something happening
- muscle: Physical power
- alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
- flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
- diminishing: To make something smaller or less important
- interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
- span: Distance between two supports of a bridge
- suppressor: Gene preventing the expression of other genes
- bundle: A group of things that are tied/fastened together
- lethal: Causing or able to cause death
- suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
- caffeine: Substance in coffee, etc. that keeps you awake
- adenosine: (biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a combined form as a constituent of DNA and RNA and ADP and ATP and AMP
- stimulant: Drug that increases physical or mental activity
- dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
- adrenaline: Chemical in the body that responds to stress, fear
- lipid: Fatty substance forming structure of living cells
- jack: To increase the amount or intensity of something
- epinephrine: Catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action
- soluble: Able to dissolve or be dissolved in a liquid
- catnip: Hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats
- savannah: Flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions
- alertness: State of being aware and able to respond quickly
- neurotransmitter: Chemical released by nerves that boost signals within the body
- chick: A baby bird
- chug: To move slowly making low sounds like steam trains
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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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Caffeine!! - Bite Sci-zed !
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VoiceTube posted on 2013/03/19Ever wonder why that cup of coffee gives you such a buzz? This video dives deep into the science of caffeine, explaining how it affects your brain and body with some seriously cool vocabulary you can use every day! You'll pick up advanced terms related to physiology and stimulants, all explained with simple sentence structures.
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