Vocabulary
- over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
- skip out: To leave a place or situation secretly, often to avoid paying or fulfilling an obligation.
- rather than: More exactly; more correctly
- have to: Must do
- with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
- work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
- potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
- incredible: Very good; amazing
- enormous: Huge; very big; very important
- improve: To make, or become, something better
- character: Person in a story, movie or play
- advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
- audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
- achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
- fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
- position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
- amount: Quantity of something
- reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
- suspicious: Doubtful about someone's honesty
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- algorithm: A step-by-step problem-solving feature
- statement: Record of activity in a bank account over time
- field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
- fantastic: Strange or unusual in design or appearance
- affect: To cause a change in something else
- suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
- foundation: Base or important starting point
- generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
- virtual: Existing only on the internet or on a computer
- form: Sports team or person's current winning record
- obscure: To hide something to make it difficult to be seen
- spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
- fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
- appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
- firmly: In a hard, steady, unchanging way
- haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- disruption: When a disturbance stops an activity in progress
- equally: In an equal, even, or identical manner
- important: Having power or authority
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- inception: Beginning or start of (institution or business)
- subjective: Using personal feelings and opinions not facts
- expense: Money you have to pay to do part of your job
- slippery: Difficult to hold or stand as it's smooth/wet/icy
- elevator: Machine that carries people between floors
- embed: To place or set inside rock, etc.
- tradition: An event, custom or way common to a people or race
- impart: To give a certain quality to something or someone
- enormously: Extremely (happy, popular, etc.)
- skip: Very large waste disposal bin
- evade: To avoid being captured; avoid answering
- groan: To make a deep sound from despair, pain etc.
- objectively: In an open-minded way; without prejudice
- limitless: Without limits in extent, size or quantity
- oscar: Annual award given in the movie industry
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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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hu posted on 2025/03/31Ever heard that you should 'chase your dreams'? Well, director Christopher Nolan has a different take in this fascinating university speech, urging you to embrace reality instead! You'll pick up advanced vocabulary and gain cultural depth as you explore critical ideas about aspiration and the real world.
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