Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
- door knob: A round handle used for opening or closing a door.
- rather than: More exactly; more correctly
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- going on: To continue doing something
- lay off: To stop troubling or hitting someone
- lay in: To provide stocks (e.g. for the winter)
- clear out: To empty things out of a place
- due to: Because of; owing to
- in on: To be involved in a secret or plan.
- deal to: To give or inflict something, often harm or punishment.
- in business: Actively operating as a commercial enterprise.
- must learn: Expressing a strong obligation or necessity to acquire knowledge or a skill.
- keep away from: To avoid someone or something; to maintain a distance.
- in a hurry: Acting or moving with great haste; rushed.
- guarantee: To promise to repair a broken product
- deliberately: In a careful, considered manner; on purpose
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- motivation: Reason behind why someone did something
- current: Electricity flowing through wires
- relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
- lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
- collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
- maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
- furious: Extremely angry
- behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
- suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
- release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
- budget: Amount of money planned to be spent
- wander: To move through a place with no particular purpose
- tragic: (Of a play, movie, or book) with a sad ending
- boast: To speak of something with too much pride
- reckon: To believe or expect that something is true
- argument: Discussion in which you disagree with someone
- mustard: Spicy yellow or brown condiment used to add flavor
- role: Character played by an actor
- occasional: Not happening often; irregular; rare
- competent: Fully qualified or capable of doing
- profoundly: With a great depth psychologically
- press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
- belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
- chore: Task done to keep a house in order e.g. cleaning
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- swollen: To increase in size or number larger than normal
- order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- argue: To fight or disagree over something
- migrate: To move from one country or place to live or work
- fond: Happy and loving; To like someone or something very much
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- question: To ask for or try to get information
- person: Man, woman or child
- wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
- business: A company formed for making profit
- tunnel: Passage under the ground, often for cars or trains
- unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
- luggage: Suitcases and bags
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
- helmet: Hard or padded protective hat, as worn by soldiers
- forehead: Area of the face above the eyes
- sloth: Someone not wanting to work because they are lazy
- favorable: When a good result or positive outcome is likely
- spatter: To throw small drops of the liquid onto a surface
- cheerleader: One who chants and dances to encourage sports team
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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
A2 Elementary
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