Vocabulary
- speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
- come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
- face to face: (Meeting) while looking at someone
- on the phone: Talking on the telephone.
- have to: Must do
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- articulate: To express something clearly using language
- struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
- present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
- situation: Place, position or area that something is in
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- native: Someone from or born in a specific country
- structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
- effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
- sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- fluent: Doing something well and with ease
- passive: Allowing things to happen with quiet acceptance
- wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
- simply: In an easy or clear manner
- require: To demand that someone does something
- suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
- reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
- project: To predict what will happen in the future
- vaguely: In a vague way; not fully
- fluently: In an able and easy manner
- luxury: Something expensive bought for pleasure
- text: To send a message by phone or other device
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
- recall: (Company) asking for the return of faulty goods
- naturally: In the expected or usual way
- memory: Ability of the mind to call back past things
- skill: Ability to do something well
- stupid: Not intelligent; lacking ability to learn easily
- body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
- phone: To talk to someone using a telephone
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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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