Vocabulary
- wake up: To stop sleeping
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- have to: Must do
- lay out: To show or explain your plans carefully
- count on: To depend on someone
- live for: To consider something the most important thing in your life; to find purpose or great pleasure in something.
- out of the way: Remote; isolated.
- in terms of
- talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
- on the street: Located on or along a public road in a town or city.
- care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
- after dinner: Following the meal of dinner.
- fall apart: To suffer a nervous breakdown
- game on: An exclamation indicating the start of a game or activity.
- with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
- in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
- fall from grace: To lose respect, status, or favor from others.
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- to the point: Expressing something directly and without unnecessary detail.
- no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
- walk back: To retract or reverse a previous statement or position.
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- pop up: To appear suddenly.
- get past: To overcome an obstacle or difficulty.
- answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
- clock on: To register the start time of work using a time clock.
- get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
- in control: Having the power to direct or regulate something; able to manage or direct a situation or person.
- out of it: Unconscious or not completely alert; dazed or confused.
- put out: To publish, e.g. a book
- on the way: During the journey to a particular place.
- struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
- obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
- awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
- opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
- physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
- compromise: To weaken your position or views
- tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
- elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
- career: Particular occupation in professional life
- dude: Form of address for a man
- etiquette: Rules regarding manners or good behavior
- tolerate: To be able to adjust to changes of various kinds
- condition: To improve something to make it better
- stack: A large number or amount of something
- account: An advantage
- laundry: Business or room to wash bed sheets, clothes etc.
- obese: Fat over a long period, so harming your health
- nutrition: Scientific study of the effects of foods on health
- connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
- drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
- project: To predict what will happen in the future
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- leave: To go away from; depart
- resolve: To make a decision to do something
- haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- ever: At any time; at all times in the future
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- terrible: Very bad; horrible
- ammunition: Supply of bullets, etc. that are fired from guns
- breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
- grace: Dignified polite behavior, as when things go badly
- representation: Depicting objects, figures, or scenes as seen
- program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- terminal: End part of some structure or concept
- frantic: Frenzied; wild with excitement, worry etc.
- refuse: To not accept, allow, or give something
- fitness: Good physical condition; being in shape
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- glad: Happy or pleased about something/to do something
- lay: Amateur; not being a trained priest
- possibly: May be true or likely, but is uncertain
- deep: Complex and important
- minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
- diaphragm: Muscular membrane separating upper/lower organs
- conveyor: Person who conveys (carries or transmits)
- healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
- inefficient: Unable to act in a way that saves resources
- outward: Going away from a place that will be returned to
- patriotic: Having a great love for your country
- bench: Part of the room in court where the judge sits
- mute: Not willing or being unable to speak
- duke: Title given to a man below the rank of prince
- clothe: To put a certain type of clothing on someone; dress
- overweight: Weighing more than a normal or allowed amount
- ultrasound: Use of sound waves to therapy or diagnostics
- fireman: Male firefighter
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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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