Vocabulary
- to the moon: Increasing quickly and significantly, often in value or excitement.
- call it a night: To stop what you are doing for the rest of the night.
- pick me up: To collect someone or something from a place.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
- live for: To consider something the most important thing in your life; to find purpose or great pleasure in something.
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- of course: Sure ; Certainly
- ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
- entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
- eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
- progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
- matter: To be of great importance; to count
- term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
- plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
- purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
- consume: To eat, drink, buy or use up something
- career: Particular occupation in professional life
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
- calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
- odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- dilemma: Position in which you must make difficult choices
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- universe: All of space that contains planets and stars
- curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
- scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
- planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
- pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
- due: When something is required or expected
- throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
- alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
- leave: To go away from; depart
- harmony: Pleasing, attractive combination of parts, things
- intrinsic: Being naturally and always a part of something
- void: Empty feeling because nothing interests you
- bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
- suicide: Act of purposely killing yourself
- century: Period of 100 years
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
- program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- point: An item to be discussed
- solar: Concerning the sun, or its heat
- infinitely: Continuing forever without end; very great
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- ignorance: Lack of information or knowledge about something
- oven: Kitchen appliance you put food in to bake, roast
- cosmos: The universe
- futile: Having no result; useless
- oblivion: State of being unconscious/unaware/being forgotten
- wink: To quickly close one eye, as when making a signal
- bloody: Covered or spotted with blood on the surface
- mega: Big; great; large; impressive
- err: To make a mistake
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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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