Vocabulary
- get here: To arrive at a specific location.
- think back: To recapture the past
- hanging out: To spend time with your friends
- go ahead: To start an activity; start doing, working etc.
- proud of you: Feeling pleased and satisfied about something you own or have done, or are connected to.
- pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
- deserve: To be worthy of, e.g. getting praise or attention
- journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
- squeeze: Amount of liquid from firmly pressing e.g. orange
- gratitude: Warm friendly feelings of thanks
- reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
- virtual: Existing only on the internet or on a computer
- huge: Very very large
- embarrassed: To cause someone to feel ashamed
- sweat: To do an amount of hard work
- couple: To join something to something else
- throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
- rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
- hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
- stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
- root: Emotional connection with a place, history etc.
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- important: Having power or authority
- offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
- uncertainty: Feeling of not really knowing what will happen
- proud: Very good; worthy of making one pleased
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- education: Academic field studying the practice of teaching
- adjust: To change; to attain a desired state or function
- support: To give assistance or advice to someone
- commencement: Time at which something begins
- audio: Concerning sound
- college: School or educational institution for adults
- great: Very good; better than before
- step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
- turn: To become (a particular age)
- celebrate: To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
- grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
- laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
- make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
- gown: Long loose clothing worn over other clothes
- embarrass: To cause someone to feel ashamed
- fare: Money people pay to travel on buses, taxis, boats
- spite: Wish to hurt another person; malice; maliciousness
- yell: A sudden loud cry or shout
- lifetime: The time between birth and death
- cap: Covering for the end or top of something
- culmination: The point at which an event or series of events ends, having developed until it reaches this point
- exciting: To cause a reaction; make active
- online: Connected to the internet
- borne: To give birth to a child; to produce fruit
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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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