Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- hang out: To spend time with your friends
- of course: Sure ; Certainly
- give yourself up: To surrender to an authority, especially the police.
- out of the blue: Unexpectedly; without warning
- with just: Using only; with no more than.
- stay in: To remain inside one's home.
- rather than: More exactly; more correctly
- apart from: Except for; not considering
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
- stop in: To visit a place briefly, usually on the way to somewhere else.
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- in terms of
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- music: Sounds that are sung or played to give pleasure
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- speak: To be able to use a certain language
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- person: Man, woman or child
- important: Having power or authority
- difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
- country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
- need: To be unable to manage without something; require
- book: (Police) to officially record someone's crimes
- living: To be alive
- sing: To make musical sounds with your voice
- small: Little in size; not big
- friend: Person who you like and enjoy being with
- receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
- song: Distinctive series of sounds made by a bird
- musical: Having a pleasant sound like music
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
- memorize: To study something so that you remember it
- academic: Concerning education, schools, universities, etc.
- explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
- foreign: Being of a different place or country
- surprised: Feeling a shock when something unexpected happens
- agree: To have the same opinion as someone else
- pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
- connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
- similar: Nearly the same; alike
- personally: By a specific person, and not by anyone else
- local: Bus or train, that stops at most stations
- traditional: Involved in a custom or event common to a people
- hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
- musician: Person who writes, sings, or plays music, as a job
- connect: To associate a thing with something else
- confuse: To make something unclear or hard to understand
- tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
- grateful: Feeling or showing thanks; thankful
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- surprising: To do something that another person didn't expect
- romantic: Relating to courtship or love
- emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
- gender: State of being male or female
- rural: Concerning the country as opposed to the city
- mixture: Something made by combining two or more things
- release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
- urban: Concerning a city; located in a city
- fluent: Doing something well and with ease
- emphasis: Special attention, importance, or force
- officially: According to what is stated by an authority figure
- distinguish: To make something clearly different from others
- motivate: To give someone a reason, the will to do something
- official: Real, exact, truely felt
- solely: With no one or nothing else
- cultivate: To grow plants, crops etc.
- assigned: To give someone a particular job to do
- assign: To give someone a particular job to do
- confine: To hold or imprison someone in a place
- surrender: Ending a fight you cannot win; formally giving up
- audio: Concerning sound
- immerse: To put something in liquid until it is covered
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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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