Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
- in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
- tail off: To become gradually smaller or weaker.
- go in with: To join with others in a business venture or undertaking.
- suck up: To try to gain favor by flattering or fawning.
- thumbs up: A gesture of approval or agreement, indicated by holding a fist with the thumb extended upwards.
- go: To attend or be at a place
- to: Toward a point, person, place or thing
- nice: Being attractive or of high quality or value
- big: Popular
- butter: Yellow substance made of cream, spread on bread
- cooking: To heat food until it is ready to eat
- love: Person's name
- finely: Done with great skill; high in quality
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- put: To move or place a thing in a particular position
- meal: Food for eating at a particular time, e.g. dinner
- beautiful: Having dome something well
- good: Proper, appropriate or right
- food: What people and animals eat to live
- enjoyed: To take pleasure in something
- toast: Bread grilled to make it brown and crisp
- lovely: Attractive or beautiful
- lemon: Badly made or poorly functioning product
- slice: Way of hitting the ball so the ball curves
- spring: Coil of metal that lessens impact, e.g. on cars
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- fresh: Clean; not used or dirty
- heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
- pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
- fry: To cook something in fat or oil
- onion: Strong-smelling, strong-tasting vegetable
- hope: When you wish something will happen; what you wish
- high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
- garlic: Strong-smelling white bulb used in cooking
- pan: To follow an object being filmed with a camera
- super: Of the highest quality; great; marvelous
- tasty: Good tasting; having a lot of flavor
- depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
- colourful: Being exciting or interesting; lively
- taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
- system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
- spicy: Hot and strongly flavored in taste
- couple: To join something to something else
- beautifully: Having dome something well
- freeze: To harden to a solid below zero degrees
- efficiently: In a way that does not create waste
- control: A device designed to operate a machine
- efficient: Able to produce results without waste
- broad: General; not detailed
- prawn: Largish edible shellfish with ten legs
- attachment: Act of connecting one thing to another
- steam: Mist collecting on a surface when wet air cools
- steamy: Filled with steam, vapor or mist
- processor: A machine that to makes something ready for use
- vitamin: Health-giving substance needed for body function
- handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
- delicate: Easily broken or damaged
- shell: Hard outer cover of an egg, fruit, nut, or seed
- tail: Extended part at the back of an animal's body
- vein: Tube that returns blood from the body to the heart
- protein: Group of molecules made from amino acids
- gross: 144 of something; twelve dozen of something
- drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
- suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
- immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
- flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
- chili: Hot-tasting spice used in curry, etc.
- kinda: Short way of saying 'kind of'
- wok: Pan with convex bottom used for stir frying
- scissor: To cut with or as if with scissors
- chilies: Hot-tasting spice used in curry, etc.
- slicer: Golfer whose shots typically curve to one side
- paella: Saffron-flavored dish of rice/shellfish/chicken
- gorge: To eat food greedily and in large quantities.
- platter: Large plate that holds several types of food
- zest: Excitement and eagerness (for life); liveliness
- rainfall: Water falling from the sky
- overcook: To spoil a food by cooking it for too long
- hack: To illegally access someone else's computer
- asparagus: Green vegetable with long thin stems
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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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