Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
- same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
- have to: Must do
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- in the end: Finally; after a period of time or series of events.
- individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
- scenario: An imagined sequence of events in a plan/project
- pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
- determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
- severe: Very bad; harsh
- effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
- exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
- necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
- split: No longer married or in a relationship
- purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
- strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
- disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
- measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
- trial: Hearing and judgment of a case in court
- significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
- suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
- ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
- prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
- assumption: Something you believe to be so, but aren't sure of
- moderate: To host a meeting or panel discussion
- arguably: Highly likely to be true but not certainly true
- dominant: The strongest; most powerful
- perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
- vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
- apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
- rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
- clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
- placebo: Harmless pill for comparison in trial of new drug
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
- dose: An amount of medicine to be taken at any one time
- argue: To fight or disagree over something
- program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
- protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
- daily: Happening every day
- virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
- tame: Not wild; trained to obey people
- person: Man, woman or child
- evenly: Equally; with advantage to both sides
- effectiveness: Degree of how well something works or is done
- mayor: Head of a town or city government
- efficacy: Ability to produce a desired outcome
- inclusion: Act of including; person, thing that is included
- calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
- infect: To introduce a computer virus to
- redo: To do over again
- hospitalization: Period of time when you are confined to a hospital
- backtrack: To go back along the route you just came
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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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