Vocabulary
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- quick look: A brief or cursory inspection or examination.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
- as a whole: Considering everything together; in general.
- rather than: More exactly; more correctly
- as for: Concerning; regarding.
- suffer from: To experience pain or distress; to be badly affected by.
- due to: Because of; owing to
- with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
- in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
- have to: Must do
- perception: Way in which one sees or understands something
- incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
- significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
- recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- dedicated: To state a person's name in book, song, in respect
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
- identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
- measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
- ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
- tendency: Likelihood to behave in a particular way
- existence: State of being present, alive or real
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- condition: To improve something to make it better
- fraction: Small part of something
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- distinctive: Having a quality that is different from others
- sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
- tiny: Very, very small
- generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
- recognition: Accepting that something is true or that it exists
- jealous: Wishing you were like someone or had their things
- direction: When someone tells people what to do
- simply: In an easy or clear manner
- typical: Normal; usual; expected
- compare: To consider how similar and different things are
- due: When something is required or expected
- neuron: A nerve cell
- gender: State of being male or female
- mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
- record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
- shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
- skull: Structure of bones forming the face and head
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- intuitively: In a manner based on feelings rather than facts
- crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
- facial: Treatment to improve condition of the skin of face
- point: An item to be discussed
- jaw: One of the two bones of the face where teeth grow
- chin: Part of your face below your mouth above your neck
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- quick: Using very little time; moving far in little time
- space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
- oatmeal: Cereal made from rolled or ground oats
- implant: To put something into, an idea in someone's mind
- warp: Twist or bend in something normally straight
- activation: Act of making something (e.g. a bomb) active
- lighten: To make (something) weigh less
- vector: Math a quantity that has both size and direction
- berry: Small, round fruit from plants and trees
- grandmother: Your mother or father's mother
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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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