Vocabulary
- from home: Working or operating from one's residence.
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- at scale: In large quantities; with significant reach or impact.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- have at: To attack someone or something.
- turned out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
- put out: To publish, e.g. a book
- found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- to do with: To be about something; concern
- break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
- figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
- across from: Being on the other side
- complete with: Having something as an extra part or feature.
- with just: Using only; with no more than.
- set out: To arrange something in an orderly fashion
- first three: The initial three items or elements in a series or sequence.
- in little: To a small extent; insignificantly.
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- at least: As a minimum
- work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
- fill up
- build in: To include something as part of a plan, system, or design.
- literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
- process: To organize and use data in a computer
- material: Cloth; fabric
- multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
- scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
- revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
- industry: Hard work; being busy working
- concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
- field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
- insight: Power to understand people and things very well
- syrup: Sugary liquid e.g. used on pancakes
- afford: To make available, to provide
- efficient: Able to produce results without waste
- capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
- state: Region within a country, with its own government
- steady: Happening or developing at a regular rate
- raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
- apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
- accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
- grand: A counter for 1000 of something
- agriculture: The science of farming
- yield: To bend or break because of a strong force
- project: To predict what will happen in the future
- target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
- react: To change when mixing with other chemicals
- industrial: Concerning making things in factories
- enzyme: A protein made by cells
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- column: Regular series of articles in a newspaper/magazine
- catalyst: Person/thing causing a change or event to happen
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- membrane: Outside covering of a cell
- piece: A counter in a board game
- hydrogen: Lightest of all chemical elements
- rotation: Regular change of the crops grown in a field
- suspend: To hang something or someone from something
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- tan: A light brown color
- product: Item that can be bought
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- bubble: A small ball of air inside of a liquid
- guy: Man; boy; any person
- cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
- tub: Another word for a bath
- seed: A person's children; offspring
- defer: To hold back to a later time
- lab: Short for 'laboratory'
- corn: Small, painful hard spot on the foot
- traditionally: Something done in a customary, traditional manner
- shipping: To transport goods by boat, truck or plane
- depot: Storage place for goods
- pancreatic: Do with the long gland, that is behind the stomach
- beaker: Flat-bottomed jar made of glass or plastic
- tanker: Vehicle built to transport liquids
- reactor: Device to control nuclear energy as a power source
- techno: Style of fast heavy electronic dance
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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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