analogy
US /əˈnælədʒi/
UK /əˈnælədʒi/
- Noun
- Comparison of things based on their similarity
B1Moreaware
US /əˈwɛr/
UK /əˈwɛə/
- Adjective
- Knowing or feeling that something exists
A2TOEICMorebottom
US /ˈbɑtəm/
UK /'bɒtəm/
- Noun
- The part of your body you sit on
- Lowest position, often in a company or contest
- Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
- To hit the lowest part of something
- To provide with a bottom.
A2TOEICMorecheerful
US /ˈtʃɪrfəl/
UK /ˈtʃiəful/
- Adjective
- Feeling or showing happiness or optimism
A2Moreconversation
US /ˌkɑnvɚˈseʃən/
UK /ˌkɒnvəˈseɪʃn/
- Uncountable Noun
- Talking with other people; discussion or chat
- General communication or interaction.
A2Moreemotional
US /ɪˈmoʃənəl/
UK /ɪˈməʊʃənl/
- Adjective
- Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- Relating to or characterized by emotion
A2Moreend up here
US
UK
- Phrasal Verb
- To arrive somewhere unexpectedly or without intending to.
A1Moreexact
US /ɪɡˈzækt/
UK /ɪɡ'zækt/
- Adjective
- Completely correct; accurate; specific
- Transitive Verb
- To get something, sometimes using force
A2TOEICMorehelpful
US /ˈhɛlpfəl/
UK /ˈhelpfl/
- Adjective
- Doing things that help someone
A2Morehole
US /hol/
UK /həʊl/
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- An empty space, as in the ground, in a sock etc.
- Fault or weakness in a plan, idea or explanation
- Transitive Verb
- (Golf) to get the ball into the hole
- To make a hole in something.
A2Morepainful
US /ˈpenfəl/
UK /ˈpeɪnfl/
- Adjective
- Causing or feeling physical pain or hurt
- Causing distress or unhappiness.
A2Moresurrounding
US /səˈraʊndɪŋ/
UK /səˈraʊndɪŋ/
- Transitive Verb
- To be all the way around something
- To be closely connected to and have an effect on
- Adjective
- Bring completed closed around on all sides
A2Morewalk around
US
UK
- Phrasal Verb
- To stroll or wander in a leisurely way.
- To move about in order to inspect something.
A2Morewalk down
US /wɔk daʊn/
UK /wɔ:k daun/
- Phrasal Verb
- To walk along or down something.
- To proceed along an aisle, especially at a wedding.
A1More
Vocabulary
- walk down: To walk along or down something.
- end up here: To arrive somewhere unexpectedly or without intending to.
- walk around: To stroll or wander in a leisurely way.
- realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
- aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
- conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
- exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
- emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
- analogy: Comparison of things based on their similarity
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- mind: To be bothered or upset by something
- bottom: The part of your body you sit on
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
- surrounding: To be all the way around something
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- painful: Causing or feeling physical pain or hurt
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- think: To have an idea about something without certainty
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- hole: An empty space, as in the ground, in a sock etc.
- helpful: Doing things that help someone
- cheerful: Feeling or showing happiness or optimism
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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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