Vocabulary
- subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
- eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
- process: To organize and use data in a computer
- strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
- native: Someone from or born in a specific country
- potentially: That could happen or become reality
- structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
- associate: Partner in professional work, e.g. in law
- aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
- spontaneous: Happening on its own, without anyone helping it
- confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
- express: To send something by fast mail
- complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
- contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
- sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
- version: Different way that someone interprets something
- incentive: Something that encourages you to do something
- method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
- concrete: Hard building material made of cement, sand, water
- frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
- spontaneously: In a sudden, unplanned way
- tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
- optimal: Best or most desirable; best possible
- plateau: Flat land that is higher than the land around it
- acronym: A word made from the first letters of other words
- courage: Quality of being able to face danger without fear
- patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
- rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
- produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
- correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
- platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
- intermediate: Between; in the middle; moderate
- channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- problematic: Being difficult to deal with or fix
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- point: An item to be discussed
- natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- pat: Person's name
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- discourage: To make a person feel less courageous or hopeful
- understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
- intimately: Privately and personally
- idiomatic: Concerning idioms
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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
A2 Elementary
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