Vocabulary
- context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
- specifically: As regards a particular thing; closely related to
- executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
- metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
- mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
- portrait: Picture of a person's head and shoulders
- corporate: Concerning (usually large) companies
- series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
- inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
- passion: Powerful, positive excitement and interest
- premium: Having a higher than normal quality
- depict: To represent or describe something using words
- thrill: Thing/event causing sudden excitement or pleasure
- visual: Of or relating to vision
- sympathetic: Feeling favorable to something; wanting to support
- project: To predict what will happen in the future
- leave: To go away from; depart
- receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- documentary: Supported by written evidence
- original: Being first made, thought or performed; fresh
- vintage: Old and somewhat treasured
- stand: To be a candidate in an election
- chance: The way something happens without planning
- natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
- tan: A light brown color
- make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
- loud: Being very bright with colors, clothes etc.
- bowl: Part of an object that has a rounded, inward curve
- broadcast: To send out signals by radio or television
- forbid: To order someone not to do something
- classic: Having a simple, basic design or style
- restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
- choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- level: Specific height of something
- expensive: Costing a lot of money
- happen: To take place or occur
- butcher: Store selling meat; person who sells meats
- perfectionist: Person displeased by anything is not perfect
- freelance: To work for yourself, not a company
- wade: Person's name
- sponsorship: Money given to a student to pay for education
- crouch: To bend your back forward from the waist on down
- quid: Slang for one British pound
- partridge: Brown bird with a short tail which is often hunted
- funder: Person who finances something, such as a business
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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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Alan Partridge is back and you could help make his new TV series a reality - BBC
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Chi Pham Quynh posted on 2025/10/21Get ready to laugh with Alan Partridge as he pitches his new TV series using a hilarious crowdfunding appeal! You'll pick up some brilliant workplace vocabulary and simple sentence structures while enjoying some top-notch British satire.
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