Vocabulary
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- spend more time: To dedicate a greater amount of time to a particular activity or person.
- based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
- essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
- rhythm: Pattern of events, motions, or changes
- stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
- pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- completely: In every way or as much as possible
- familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
- confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
- foundation: Base or important starting point
- contrast: To compare; to show clear, obvious differences
- distinguish: To make something clearly different from others
- emphasize: To stress the items that are important
- huge: Very very large
- imitation: Act of copying or imitating something
- apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
- expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
- suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
- syllable: Part of a word containing a vowel
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
- shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
- fluently: In an able and easy manner
- academy: School that specializes in certain subjects
- frustrate: To make annoyed because things don't go well
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- important: Having power or authority
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- tune: To make adjustments to equipment to make it better
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- vowel: A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- verb: Word that expresses an action or state
- chart: Drawing showing information in a clear way
- unfamiliar: Unusual; strange or unknown
- repertoire: Variety of things (e.g. operas/skills) you can do
- hut: Small and simple building
- unstressed: Having no accent or stress when spoken
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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
A2 Elementary
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