Vocabulary
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
- thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
- scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
- revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
- advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
- attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
- general: Widespread, normal or usual
- property: Particular quality that someone or something has
- bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
- corporate: Concerning (usually large) companies
- venture: (Business) activity involving calculated risks
- perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
- private: Being away from others and quiet
- account: An advantage
- asset: Thing that has value to you
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
- permanently: For a long time; always
- construction: Act of building something; thing that is built
- economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
- layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
- platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
- target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- enterprise: A business or organization
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- niche: Small part of a market representing an opportunity
- transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
- inability: Lack of ability, power, or means to do something
- catalyst: Person/thing causing a change or event to happen
- operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- economic: Concerning trade, industry, and money
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- argue: To fight or disagree over something
- point: An item to be discussed
- implementation: A practical means for accomplishing something
- equity: Condition of people being treated the same
- thesis: Long paper presenting original research and ideas
- customize: To make, change according to the user's needs
- datum: Item of factual information
- transformation: A complete change in shape or form of something
- playbook: Notebook with diagrams of the plays of a team
- traditionally: Something done in a customary, traditional manner
- silicon: Mineral used in making steel and computer parts
- vista: View as seen between rows of trees, buildings, etc.
- nexus: Link or connection between things or groups
- bravo: Shouted to express approval, e.g. of a performance
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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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