Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
- used up: To use all of; consume
- on the door: Situated on the surface or part of a door.
- break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
- in itself: Considered alone or without reference to anything else; intrinsically.
- read through: To read something from beginning to end, often to find mistakes or check details.
- road ahead: The future; what is to come.
- wake up: To stop sleeping
- has over: To invite someone to your house.
- rely on: To depend on someone or something
- to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
- go find: To search for and locate someone or something.
- get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
- out of it: Unconscious or not completely alert; dazed or confused.
- eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
- individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
- tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
- crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- category: Groups of things that are similar in some way
- current: Electricity flowing through wires
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- frankly: Speaking honestly and directly
- property: Particular quality that someone or something has
- mortgage: Long-term loan from a bank for buying property
- financial: Involving money
- estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
- collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
- affect: To cause a change in something else
- afford: To make available, to provide
- issue: To make something available to be used or sold
- concern: To be about a particular topic
- reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
- sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
- accumulate: To gather or acquire so that you have more of it
- response: Something said/written as an answer to something
- account: An advantage
- complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- fulfill: To finish or provide something successfully
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
- scope: Opportunity for action or thought
- coronavirus: Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
- continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
- government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
- program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
- own: To have something as your property
- chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
- suspend: To hang something or someone from something
- hardship: When life is not easy, e.g. through being poor
- income: Earned money from work, investments or business
- devastation: Act of ruining or destroying something
- cover: To record a different version of another song
- vacant: Having no fixtures, furniture, or inhabitants
- lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
- happen: To take place or occur
- landlord: Someone who owns and rents a place to people
- wake: To cause to become more energetic or attentive
- widow: Woman whose husband has died
- petrify: To be very afraid or paralysed with terror
- jay: Bird with a blue and white pattern on the wing
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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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