Vocabulary
- step back: To move backwards; to move away from something.
- work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
- blank out: To lose consciousness or memory temporarily.
- calm down: To make or become relaxed after being stressed
- call in: To ask others for help when in need
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- rely on: To depend on someone or something
- in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
- back up: To save a copy of your computer data
- sit back: To relax and take it easy.
- lean in: To move closer to someone or something, often by bending forward.
- of course: Sure ; Certainly
- show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
- contagious: Able to be passed on by touch
- cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
- achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
- purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
- impressive: Causing admiration or respect; grand or expensive
- fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
- confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
- emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- capable: Being able to do something very well; proficient
- research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
- suspicious: Doubtful about someone's honesty
- desire: To wish for, hope or want something
- calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
- presentation: Act of giving a formal talk about something
- lean: To balance against or on something for support
- rehearse: To practice e.g. play, speech before a performance
- intimidate: To make someone feel afraid
- interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
- task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
- mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
- prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
- behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- quiz: A game in which players answer questions on topics
- competent: Fully qualified or capable of doing
- rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
- instinctively: Through intuition, not thought
- stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
- notch: Certain level (slightly higher or lower than)
- collaborate: To cooperate with or help an enemy
- important: Having power or authority
- physiological: Of or relating to functions of the body
- hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
- collaborative: Working with others to complete a task
- event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
- competence: Ability to do in a fully satisfactory way
- collar: Band put around the neck of an animal
- step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- sprinkle: To throw a little water on something
- trustworthy: Honest and reliable
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- question: To ask for or try to get information
- mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- area: Amount of measured space
- choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
- nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
- physiology: Ways in which the parts of a living thing operate
- angle: Place where two lines or surfaces meet
- lab: Short for 'laboratory'
- reset: To return to the original start or formation
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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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