Vocabulary
- subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
- episode: One separate event in a series of events
- pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
- effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
- expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
- pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
- vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
- metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
- suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
- increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
- lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- similar: Nearly the same; alike
- explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
- drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
- flexible: Bending easily
- due: When something is required or expected
- invest: To use resources to build for the future
- fortune: What might happen to you in the future
- click: To work well with someone or something
- economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
- trend: Current style or fashion
- haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
- millennial: Concerning a millennium (a thousand years)
- channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
- loose: To shoot or fire something from a gun
- phrasal: Concerning or consisting of a phrase
- tight: Showing anxiety or anger; tense
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- verb: Word that expresses an action or state
- slack: Condition of being looser or not tight
- petrol: Liquid used as fuel in car engines; (US) gasoline
- sail: To travel across water in a boat or a ship
- review: To carefully look at the quality of something
- rope: A thick string made by twisting fibers together
- electric: Creating a feeling of excitement
- headline: To be the main performer at a show
- telegraph: To signal to someone without speaking
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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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