Vocabulary
- perspective: Artistic method of creating a sense of distance
- entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
- significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
- extremely: In a way that is much more than usual or expected
- crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
- negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
- specifically: As regards a particular thing; closely related to
- strike: To hit something
- amount: Quantity of something
- decline: To bend towards the ground
- demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
- environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
- property: Particular quality that someone or something has
- increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
- decade: Period of 10 years
- encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
- debt: Sum of money owed to someone that is not yet paid
- leverage: An advantage which gives you influence or power
- political: Being active or interested in government matters
- capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
- gear: To aim at or prepare yourself for something
- corporate: Concerning (usually large) companies
- regime: A system of management; a form of government
- compare: To consider how similar and different things are
- productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
- rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
- speculation: Taking risks that might lead to big profits
- scarce: Not many; Not plentiful or abundant
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- detach: To send away a military unit on a special mission
- government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
- modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
- argue: To fight or disagree over something
- rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
- great: Very good; better than before
- land: Region or country
- immigration: Process of moving your home to a new country
- suburban: Of residential areas outside a city
- tenure: Land or buildings one owns
- unit: One apartment in a building
- median: Being in the middle or average
- sprawl: To spread out in an uncontrolled way
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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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