Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- come up to: To meet expectations
- got to: To arrive at some place
- work out
- give it up: To stop trying to do something
- talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
- wake up: To stop sleeping
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- break out
- calm down: To make or become relaxed after being stressed
- get it together: To organize your life and become more responsible.
- absolutely: Completely; totally; very
- audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
- applause: The sound made by clapping a performance or speech
- community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
- priority: Thing that is more important/urgent than others
- calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
- consistency: Quality of behaving or meaning the same
- regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
- capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
- interrupt: To stop something from happening for a while
- vision: Ability to see; eyesight
- board: Surface for posting or showing information
- drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
- swallow: To believe (something that is not true)
- honor: To fulfill an agreement
- extinct: (Of animal, etc.) having died out; with none left
- certificate: Official paper accepted as proof of something
- punctuation: Marks used in piece of writing, such as ? ; and !
- attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
- millennial: Concerning a millennium (a thousand years)
- science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
- sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- punch: Alcoholic drink made from wine and fruit, etc.
- memorize: To study something so that you remember it
- allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
- creative: Having the ability to make something new
- spell: To lead to future trouble
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
- mercury: Silver-white metal that is used in thermometers
- applaud: To clap the hands together to express support
- minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
- absent: Not present at a usual or expected place
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- burn: To destroy with fire
- sage: Someone who is very wise
- type: Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- esophagus: The passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- lesson: Something done to learn or teach something; class
- complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
- capitalize: To write words, the first letter in BIG LETTERS
- heaven: Place or feeling of great happiness
- whale: To strike forcefully, e.g. as a punishment
- apostrophe: Punctuation mark (') showing possession
- kid: Child or young person
- mutter: To speak in a way that is not very clear or loud
- roster: List of people's names who have some duty to do
- hyphen: A dash put between words, e.g. wide-bodied
- asterisk: The mark *
- sapphire: Hard, clear blue stone, used in jewellery
- arbitrarily: Without using reason, often unfairly; on a whim
- lone: Being alone or the only one; single
- til: Until
- angel: Supernatural human figure from heaven with wings
- homework: Work that a student is given to do at home
- mama: A mother
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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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