Vocabulary
- cap on: An upper limit or restriction on something, such as spending or quantity.
- on credit: Purchasing something now but paying for it later.
- call for: To demand, need or require (an action or thing)
- make up: To invent or create a story
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
- express: To send something by fast mail
- slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
- industry: Hard work; being busy working
- financial: Involving money
- authority: The power to give orders to people
- deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
- chase: Act of going after someone to catch them
- raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
- rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
- interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
- lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
- trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
- dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- stream: To send a constant flow of data over the internet
- credit: System to buy something and pay for it later
- limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
- legislation: Act or process of writing and passing laws
- british: Concerning the culture and people of British
- uncertainty: Feeling of not really knowing what will happen
- sector: Part that a place is divided into
- impose: To make someone to do or endure something
- president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
- threaten: To cause something potential harm, or put at risk
- exceed: To be greater in number, degree than something
- comply: To obey; follow a rule, another's wishes etc.
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- weigh: To balance things against each other
- list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
- global: Concerning, involving, affecting all of something
- cap: Covering for the end or top of something
- touch: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
- give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
- presidential: Concerning the president
- plan: Drawing of how something should be done or made
- close: Almost; near
- analyst: Someone who is skilled at studying details of data
- visa: Authorization to enter a foreign country
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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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