Vocabulary
- on a daily basis: Happening every day.
- other than: Except for; apart from.
- come on to: To make a sexual advance towards someone.
- on to: Toward something; forward
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
- in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
- go ahead: To start an activity; start doing, working etc.
- prepare yourself: To get yourself ready for something.
- in times: During periods or moments of.
- in writing: Expressed or presented in written form, rather than spoken.
- based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
- hang on: To wait for the person you phoned to answer
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- ridiculous: Funny or foolish; deserving to be laughed at
- commitment: Permanent love or concern for person, thing
- physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
- fascinating: To attract or interest greatly
- straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
- conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
- curious: Wanting to know more about something
- insult: To disrespect someone by being rude or impolite
- relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
- notion: Sudden idea or desire to do something
- mutual: Shared between two or more people
- comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
- attention: Taking notice of someone or something
- contact: Touching or feeling something
- curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
- communicate: To give and exchange information
- favor: Support or approval from people
- chest: Strong, lidded container for storing things
- honor: To fulfill an agreement
- hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- mind: To be bothered or upset by something
- excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
- defend: To protect and explain your position in court
- fond: Happy and loving; To like someone or something very much
- daily: Happening every day
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- prepare: To make something ready for use
- prostate: Male gland important in the creation of semen
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- think: To have an idea about something without certainty
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- uncomfortable: Not being relaxed; worried about something
- lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
- meet: To provide something that is necessary
- penny: Person's name
- hug: To hold someone in your arms as sign of affection
- experimentation: Act of making and performing experiments or tests
- strangle: To kill by squeezing the throat, e.g. with a rope
- unthinkable: Impossible to imagine; not to be considered
- fowl: Bird that is kept on a farm for its eggs and meat
- boa: Snake that kills by winding itself around its prey
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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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