Vocabulary

  • look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
  • go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
  • have to: Must do
  • out of it: Unconscious or not completely alert; dazed or confused.
  • at school: Present and attending school.
  • run over: To go beyond a limit, e.g. of a budget
  • fall out
  • instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
  • on the beach: Located on the sandy or pebbly area bordering a body of water.
  • turn away: To go in a different direction; not face something
  • go on: To continue doing something
  • to do with: To be about something; concern
  • work out
  • stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
  • straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
  • acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
  • fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
  • scratch: To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch
  • calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
  • overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
  • edge: An advantage you have over others
  • judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
  • external: Concerning foreign countries
  • attention: Taking notice of someone or something
  • challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
  • nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
  • drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
  • outcome: Something that happens as a result, consequence
  • excitement: When people feel very happy and enthusiastic
  • fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
  • plummet: To fall quickly, as from the sky
  • wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
  • shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
  • fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
  • internal: Being or happening in the body
  • scary: Causing fear; frightening
  • stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
  • loop: A circle or curved shape, as when you tie a lace
  • bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
  • stomach: Place in the body where food is processed
  • count: To add things together to find the total number
  • drown: To kill something by putting it under water
  • kind: In a caring and helpful manner
  • pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
  • learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
  • build: Your physical shape; physique
  • crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
  • balcony: Platform with a rail projecting out of a building
  • mould: Fungus growing on old food or in wet dark places
  • rejection: Decision that something is not good enough
  • fill: To make something full
  • drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
  • diaper: Towel/paper for baby's bottom for urine/feces
  • disappointment: Feeling or state of not being satisfied
  • foggy: With cloudy air that makes seeing things difficult
  • terrify: To scare or greatly frighten
  • tingle: Feeling as if small needles are in your skin
  • socket: Area into which (e.g. a bone) will fit
  • nervousness: Feeling of uneasiness or anxiety about something
  • cautiously: In a manner to avoid risk or danger
  • skid: To slide along a surface in an uncontrolled way
  • bee: Gathering to perform activities and tasks together
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    • acquire

      US /əˈkwaɪr/

      UK /ə'kwaɪə(r)/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To get or earn something by thinking or working
      • To develop or learn a skill, habit, or quality.
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    • at school

      US

      UK

      • Phrase
      • Present and attending school.
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    • attention

      US /əˈtɛnʃən/

      UK /əˈtenʃn/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Taking notice of someone or something
      • Noun
      • (Soldiers) Standing with straight backs
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    • balcony

      US /ˈbælkəni/

      UK /'bælkənɪ/

      • Noun
      • Platform with a rail projecting out of a building
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    • bear

      US /bɛr/

      UK /bɛː/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To accept (responsibilities or duties)
      • To give birth to a child; to produce fruit
      • Countable Noun
      • Large brown animal with fur that lives in forests
      • Someone who expects stock market to fall
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    • bee

      US /bi/

      UK /bi:/

      • Noun
      • Gathering to perform activities and tasks together
      • Black and yellow insect that makes honey
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    • calm

      US /kɑm/

      UK /kɑ:m/

      • Adjective
      • Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
      • Relaxed and not worried or angry
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To make or become relaxed and not worried or angry
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    • cautiously

      US /ˈkɔʃəslɪ/

      UK /'kɔ:ʃəslɪ/

      • Adverb
      • In a manner to avoid risk or danger
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    • challenge

      US /ˈtʃæləndʒ/

      UK /'tʃælɪndʒ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
      • Act of formally inviting someone to compete
      • Transitive Verb
      • To formally invite someone to compete at something
      • To question the correctness of something
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    • count

      US /kaʊnt/

      UK /kaʊnt/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To add things together to find the total number
      • To matter or be important
      • Countable Noun
      • Number of things added together, e.g. votes
      • With the number of crimes, knockouts, as stated
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    • diaper

      US /ˈdaɪəpɚ, ˈdaɪpɚ/

      UK /'daɪəpə(r)/

      • Noun
      • Towel/paper for baby's bottom for urine/feces
      • Transitive Verb
      • To put a diaper on a baby.
      • To decorate with a repeating pattern.
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    • disappointment

      US /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/

      UK /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Feeling or state of not being satisfied
      • An event or situation that is not as good as you had hoped
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    • drown

      US /draʊn/

      UK /draʊn/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To kill something by putting it under water
      • To make something very wet or cover it completely
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    • edge

      US /ɛdʒ/

      UK /edʒ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • An advantage you have over others
      • Cutting side of a sharp object
      • Transitive Verb
      • To cut something to make the blade sharp
      • To go around the boundary of something
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    • excitement

      US /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/

      UK /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/

      • Uncountable Noun
      • When people feel very happy and enthusiastic
      • Something that causes great enthusiasm and eagerness.
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    • external

      US /ɪkˈstɚnəl/

      UK /eksˈtə:nl/

      • Adjective
      • Concerning foreign countries
      • Concerning the outside of something; outer
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    • fall out

      US /fɔl aʊt/

      UK /fɔ:l aut/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To stop being friends with; have a disagreement
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    • foggy

      US /ˈfɔɡi/

      UK /'fɒɡɪ/

      • Adjective
      • With cloudy air that makes seeing things difficult
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    • go on

      US /ɡo ɑn/

      UK /ɡəu ɔn/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To continue doing something
      • To happen (usually negative)
      • Interjection
      • Used to encourage someone
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    • go out

      US /ɡo aʊt/

      UK /ɡəu aut/

      • Phrase
      • To leave a building (e.g. a house)
      • Phrasal Verb
      • (Of a fire) to burn out; be extinguished
      • Go out of fashion to stop being fashionable
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    • have to

      US /hæv tu/

      UK /ˈhæv tə/

      • Auxiliary Verb
      • Must do
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    • instead of

      US /ɪnˈstɛd ʌv/

      UK /inˈsted ɔv/

      • Preposition
      • When one thing is replaced by another
      • Adverb
      • As a substitute or alternative.
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    • internal

      US /ɪnˈtɚnəl/

      UK /inˈtə:nəl/

      • Adjective
      • Being or happening in the body
      • Being, happening in a country, state, organization
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    • judge

      US /dʒʌdʒ/

      UK /dʒʌdʒ/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Person who decides on the results of a contest
      • Person who has the power to make a decision
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To reach a decision about who won a contest
      • To form an opinion after careful consideration
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    • look at

      US /lʊk æt/

      UK /luk æt/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To use your eyes to focus on something
      • To focus your eyes on something carefully
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    • loop

      US /lup/

      UK /lu:p/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • A circle or curved shape, as when you tie a lace
      • A circle of rope or string to put around something
      • Transitive Verb
      • To put a circle of rope around something
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    • mould

      US /mold/

      UK /məʊld/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Fungus growing on old food or in wet dark places
      • Container to shape material into a certain form
      • Transitive Verb
      • To form something into a shape
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    • nervousness

      US

      UK

      • Uncountable Noun
      • Feeling of uneasiness or anxiety about something
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    • on the beach

      US

      UK

      • Phrase
      • Located on the sandy or pebbly area bordering a body of water.
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    • out of it

      US /aʊt ʌv ɪt/

      UK /aut ɔv it/

      • Adjective
      • Unconscious or not completely alert; dazed or confused.
      • Not able to think clearly or react quickly; not with it.
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    • outcome

      US /ˈaʊtˌkʌm/

      UK /ˈaʊtkʌm/

      • Noun
      • Something that happens as a result, consequence
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    • overcome

      US /ˌovɚˈkʌm/

      UK /ˌəʊvə'kʌm/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
      • Participle
      • Past participle of overcome; to have successfully dealt with or controlled a problem or feeling.
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    • plummet

      US /ˈplʌmɪt/

      UK /ˈplʌmɪt/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To fall quickly, as from the sky
      • To decrease rapidly in value or amount.
      • Countable Noun
      • A plumb bob.
      • A weight attached to a line, used to determine depth or verticality.
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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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    • run over

      US /rʌn ˈovɚ/

      UK /rʌn ˈəuvə/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To go beyond a limit, e.g. of a budget
      • To hit someone when driving a car
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    • scratch

      US /skrætʃ/

      UK /skrætʃ/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch
      • To make a small cut or mark on a surface
      • Noun
      • Action of rubbing your skin when itchy
      • A small cut or mark on a surface
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    • skid

      US /skɪd/

      UK /skɪd/

      • Intransitive Verb
      • To slide along a surface in an uncontrolled way
      • Noun
      • An uncontrolled slide along a surface
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    • socket

      US /ˈsɑkɪt/

      UK /'sɒkɪt/

      • Noun
      • Area into which (e.g. a bone) will fit
      • Point in the wall to plug in an electrical device
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    • stick

      US /stɪk/

      UK /stɪk/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • To push a sharp or pointed object into something
      • To join together using glue or paste
      • Countable Noun
      • Long thin piece of wood from a tree
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    • stomach

      US /ˈstʌmək/

      UK /'stʌmək/

      • Noun
      • Place in the body where food is processed
      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • to be able to accept something unpleasant
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    • straight

      US /stret/

      UK /streɪt/

      • Adjective
      • Not having curves, bends, or angles
      • Not gay; heterosexual
      • Adverb
      • in a line; immediately; honestly and directly
      • In a straight line; directly.
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    • terrify

      US /ˈtɛrəˌfaɪ/

      UK /ˈterɪfaɪ/

      • Transitive Verb
      • To scare or greatly frighten
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    • tingle

      US /ˈtɪŋɡəl/

      UK /'tɪŋɡl/

      • Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
      • Feeling as if small needles are in your skin
      • Intransitive Verb
      • To have a feeling like small needles in your skin
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    • to do with

      US

      UK

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To be about something; concern
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    • turn away

      US /tɚn əˈwe/

      UK /tə:n əˈwei/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To go in a different direction; not face something
      • To stop people going into a place, club etc.
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    • wanna

      US /ˈwɑnə/

      UK /'wɒnə/

      • Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
      • Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
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    • work out

      US /wɚk aʊt/

      UK /wə:k aut/

      • Phrasal Verb
      • To find a way to do something, by thinking
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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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