Vocabulary

  • have to: Must do
  • in the moment: At the present time; now.
  • used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
  • want in: To desire to participate or be included in something.
  • size up: To consider something to make a decision
  • got to: To arrive at some place
  • feel the need: To have a strong desire or urge to do something.
  • on purpose: Intentionally; deliberately.
  • over time: Gradually; as time passes.
  • bad idea: An unwise or imprudent course of action.
  • susceptible: Likely to fall prey to, be drawn to or influenced
  • essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
  • mental: Concerning the mind
  • strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
  • basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
  • concept: Abstract idea of something or how it works
  • esteem: Feeling of respect or admiration regarding someone
  • improve: To make, or become, something better
  • immediately: Without any delay; straight away
  • treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
  • variety: Particular type of thing or person
  • fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
  • identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
  • emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
  • opinion: Court judge's statement why a decision was made
  • influence: To affect or change something indirectly
  • significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
  • brand: A mark burned on an animal to show who owns it
  • desire: To wish for, hope or want something
  • conduct: Your behavior
  • conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
  • accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
  • interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
  • downright: Absolute; absolutely
  • notorious: Being famous or publicly known for something bad
  • effect: An advantage, benefit
  • retail: Business of selling products to the public
  • identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
  • deem: To judge something to be a certain thing, way
  • belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
  • suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
  • thread: Spiral cut at the end of a bolt
  • decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
  • british: Concerning the culture and people of British
  • sustainability: Property of being able to be continued/repeated
  • cater: To cook or serve at an event for a fee
  • rejection: Decision that something is not good enough
  • prevail: To be successful against enemy/problem
  • drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
  • product: Item that can be bought
  • great: Very good; better than before
  • include: To make someone, something part of a group
  • popular: Liked or enjoyed by many people
  • slick: Confident; effortlessly effective
  • group: Two or more musicians who play music together
  • expensive: Costing a lot of money
  • exclusion: Act of preventing someone from taking part
  • time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
  • sear: To use high heat to quickly burn the surface of
  • linen: Cloth made from fibers of the flax plant
  • snob: Person with offensive air of superiority
  • eagle: Very large, strong bird that hunts small animals
  • salesperson: Person employed to sell a company's products
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    • accessible

      US /ækˈsɛsəbəl/

      UK /əkˈsesəbl/

      • Adjective
      • Able to be entered, reached or used
      • Easy to understand.
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    • bad idea

      US

      UK

      • Phrase
      • An unwise or imprudent course of action.
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    • basically

      US /ˈbesɪkəli,-kli/

      UK /ˈbeɪsɪkli/

      • Adverb
      • Used before you explain something simply, clearly
      • In essence; when you consider the most important aspects of something.
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    • brand

      US /brænd/

      UK /brænd/

      • Noun
      • A mark burned on an animal to show who owns it
      • Product made or designed by a named company
      • Transitive Verb
      • To burn a mark on an animal to show who owns it
      • To describe someone as a liar, coward, etc.
      A2TOEIC
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    • cater

      US /ˈketɚ/

      UK /'keɪtə(r)/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To cook or serve at an event for a fee
      • To handle or deal with; provide what is needed
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    • concept

      US /ˈkɑnˌsɛpt/

      UK /'kɒnsept/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Abstract idea of something or how it works
      • A plan or intention; a conception.
      A2TOEIC
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    • conduct

      US / kənˈdʌkt/

      UK /kənˈdʌkt/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Your behavior
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To behave in a certain way; e.g. at a party
      • To let electricity or heat travel through
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    • conventional

      US /kənˈvɛnʃənəl/

      UK /kən'venʃənl/

      • Adjective
      • Following the common attitudes and practices
      • Non-nuclear
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    • decrease

      US /dɪˈkris/

      UK /dɪˈkri:s/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To reduce the size, amount or number of something
      • Uncountable Noun
      • Amount by which something has been reduced
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    • deem

      US /dim/

      UK /di:m/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To judge something to be a certain thing, way
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    • desire

      US / dɪˈzaɪr/

      UK /dɪ'zaɪə(r)/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To wish for, hope or want something
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Thing that is wished for or wanted
      • A strong feeling of sexual wanting.
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    • downright

      US /ˈdaʊnˌraɪt/

      UK /ˈdaʊnraɪt/

      • Adjective
      • Absolute; absolutely
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    • eagle

      US /ˈiɡəl/

      UK /ˈi:gl/

      • Noun
      • Very large, strong bird that hunts small animals
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    • emotional

      US /ɪˈmoʃənəl/

      UK /ɪˈməʊʃənl/

      • Adjective
      • Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
      • Relating to or characterized by emotion
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    • essential

      US /ɪˈsɛnʃəl/

      UK /ɪ'senʃl/

      • Adjective
      • Extremely or most important and necessary
      • Fundamental; basic.
      • Noun
      • A concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants.
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    • esteem

      US /ɪˈstim/

      UK /ɪˈsti:m/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Feeling of respect or admiration regarding someone
      • Transitive Verb
      • To regard with great respect or admiration
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    • exclusion

      US /ɪkˈskluʒən/

      UK /ɪkˈsklu:ʒn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Act of preventing someone from taking part
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    • fancy

      US /ˈfænsi/

      UK /'fænsɪ/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To want to have or do something; feel like
      • To imagine or suppose that something will happen
      • Adjective
      • Unusual and attractive in design
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    • feel the need

      US

      UK

      • Phrase
      • To have a strong desire or urge to do something.
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    • got to

      US /ɡɑt tu/

      UK /gɔt tu:/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To arrive at some place
      • To have the opportunity or permission to do something
      • Phrasal Verb
      • To appeal to the emotions of; move
      • To finally begin to start something after a delay
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    • have to

      US /hæv tu/

      UK /ˈhæv tə/

      • Auxiliary Verb
      • Must do
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    • identify

      US /aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪ/

      UK /aɪ'dentɪfaɪ/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To indicate who or what someone or something is
      • To say exactly what something is
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    • identity

      US /aɪˈdɛntɪti/

      UK /aɪ'dentətɪ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Collection of qualities that makes a person
      • Who someone is; the name of a person
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    • in the moment

      US

      UK

      • Phrase
      • At the present time; now.
      • Spontaneously; without prior planning or consideration.
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    • influence

      US / ˈɪnfluəns/

      UK /'ɪnflʊəns/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To affect or change something indirectly
      • To persuade someone to do something.
      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • The power to affect what happens, to persuade etc.
      • A person or thing that affects someone or something in an important way.
      A2TOEIC
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    • interaction

      US /ˌɪntɚˈækʃən/

      UK /ˌɪntər'ækʃn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Process of people or things affecting each other
      • The activity of talking to other people, working together etc
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    • linen

      US /ˈlɪnən/

      UK /ˈlɪnɪn/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Cloth made from fibers of the flax plant
      B2
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    • mental

      US /ˈmɛntl/

      UK /ˈmentl/

      • Adjective
      • Concerning the mind
      A2TOEIC
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    • notorious

      US /noʊ'tɔ:rɪrs/

      UK /nəʊ'tɔ:rɪəs/

      • Adjective
      • Being famous or publicly known for something bad
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    • on purpose

      US /ɑn ˈpɚpəs/

      UK /ɔn ˈpə:pəs/

      • Idiom
      • Intentionally; deliberately.
      • Phrase
      • Intentionally; deliberately.
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    • opinion

      US /əˈpɪnjən/

      UK /əˈpɪnjən/

      • Noun
      • Court judge's statement why a decision was made
      • A person's thoughts on a topic
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    • over time

      US /ˈovɚ taɪm/

      UK /ˈəuvə taim/

      • Phrase
      • Gradually; as time passes.
      • During a long period.
      • Adverb
      • Gradually; as time passes.
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    • prevail

      US /prɪˈvel/

      UK /prɪˈveɪl/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To be successful against enemy/problem
      • To exist at a certain time; to be common
      • Transitive Verb
      • Persuade (someone) to do something.
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    • rejection

      US /rɪˈdʒɛkʃən/

      UK /rɪ'dʒekʃn/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Decision that something is not good enough
      • Act of refusing to consider or believe
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    • retail

      US /ˈriˌtel/

      UK /'ri:teɪl/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Business of selling products to the public
      • Adverb
      • Bought or sold in a store or shop
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    • salesperson

      US /ˈseɪlzpɜ:rsn/

      UK /ˈseɪlzpɜ:sn/

      • Countable Noun
      • Person employed to sell a company's products
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    • sear

      US /sɪr/

      UK /sɪə(r)/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To use high heat to quickly burn the surface of
      • To make a strong, unpleasant impression on
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    • significantly

      US /sɪɡˈnɪfəkəntlɪ/

      UK /sɪgˈnɪfɪkəntli/

      • Adverb
      • In a way that is important or noticeable
      • In a way that is meaningful
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    • size up

      US /saɪz ʌp/

      UK /saiz ʌp/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To consider something to make a decision
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    • slick

      US /slɪk/

      UK /slɪk/

      • Adjective
      • Confident; effortlessly effective
      • Thin layer of oil
      • Transitive Verb
      • To make (e.g. the hair) sleek or smooth
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    • snob

      US /snɑ:b/

      UK /snɒb/

      • Noun
      • Person with offensive air of superiority
      B2
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    • strategy

      US /ˈstrætədʒi/

      UK /'strætədʒɪ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
      • Branch of military dealing with command
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    • susceptible

      US /səˈsɛptəbəl/

      UK /səˈseptəbl/

      • Adjective
      • Likely to fall prey to, be drawn to or influenced
      • At risk of developing a certain illness or problem
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    • sustainability

      US

      UK

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Property of being able to be continued/repeated
      • The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level; avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance.
      B2
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    • thread

      US /θrɛd/

      UK /θred/

      • Noun
      • Spiral cut at the end of a bolt
      • A long, very thin, material used to sew cloth
      • Transitive Verb
      • To move yourself through a crowded or narrow space
      • To put wire, string, etc. through a hole or needle
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    • used to

      US /juzd tu/

      UK /ˈju:st tə/

      • Adjective
      • Did regularly before, but don't do now
      • Auxiliary Verb
      • Have done before, but do not do now
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    • variety

      US /vəˈraɪɪti/

      UK /və'raɪətɪ/

      • Noun
      • Particular type of thing or person
      • The quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity, sameness, or monotony.
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    • want in

      US

      UK

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To desire to participate or be included in something.
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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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