Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- got to: To arrive at some place
- in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
- down with: Suffering from an illness.
- think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
- of course: Sure ; Certainly
- in on: To be involved in a secret or plan.
- on purpose: Intentionally; deliberately.
- hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- breathe in: To inhale; to take air into the lungs.
- to a T: Exactly, perfectly fitting or accurate.
- have to: Must do
- pair off: To form pairs or couples.
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
- pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
- awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
- present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
- properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
- technique: Way of doing by using special knowledge or skill
- trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
- tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
- encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
- sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
- dumb: Senseless; stupid
- pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
- odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
- clue: Information that helps explain something; hint
- tense: The use of grammar to state the time things happen
- physically: In a manner related to the body
- private: Being away from others and quiet
- messy: Being complex or difficult to fix
- challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
- embarrassed: To cause someone to feel ashamed
- sink: To push something down into the ground
- swallow: To believe (something that is not true)
- mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
- complicate: To make more difficult to do, understand or use
- important: Having power or authority
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- vowel: A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
- alphabet: Letters, symbols, characters of a written language
- breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
- adjective: A word that describes a noun, e.g. happy
- staff: Employees of a company
- hint: To suggest without being direct about it
- natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
- hook: Bent tool used to catch fish or to hang things on
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- verb: Word that expresses an action or state
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
- check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
- noun: The subject or object of a sentence
- lesson: Something done to learn or teach something; class
- phonetic: Concerning the sounds of languages
- pepper: Green, red, or yellow vegetable with hollow center
- participle: Nonfinite form of the verb, e.g. -ing or -ed forms
- dentist: Person whose job is to take care of people's teeth
- symbolize: To represent to show a thing's essential character
- yoga: Exercise system to gain suppleness and tranquility
- underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
- titanic: Concerning great force or power
- someplace: In or at or to some place
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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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