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- language proficiency: The ability to use a language with accuracy and fluency.
- around the world: In or to many countries.
- opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
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- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
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- pitch: To suggest a product, idea to make someone buy
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- project: To predict what will happen in the future
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- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
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- build: Your physical shape; physique
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- proposal: Act of asking someone to marry you
- prepare: To make something ready for use
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
- growth: Improvement, development in a skill over time
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- level: Specific height of something
- want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
- gateway: Entrance that can be closed by a gate
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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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