Vocabulary
- on fire: Very successful or popular
- over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
- call for: To demand, need or require (an action or thing)
- wake up: To stop sleeping
- stake: Share/interest in the success of a business, etc.
- calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
- remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
- expire: To breathe out
- adjust: To change; to attain a desired state or function
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- bring: To take or go with someone to a place
- judgment: Opinion that is made after careful consideration
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- goofy: Silly or stupid; crazy
- be: Being
- apartment: Set of rooms to live in on one floor of a building
- psyche: Soul, mind, or feelings of a person or group
- uniform: Set of clothes showing you belong to an army, etc.
- come: To arrive at a place
- insecticide: Chemical substance used for killing insects
- soy: Food substance made from soya beans
- select: To choose a suitable thing from a group
- close: Almost; near
- psychic: Concerning the mind and its workings
- wake: To cause to become more energetic or attentive
- call: A order or request for action
- underground: (Being or living) under the surface of the earth
- save: To make your computer keep a file
- fire: Heat and the flame produced when burning
- laziness: Relaxed and inactive manner
- try: To make an effort, to attempt to do something
- war: Situation where armies fight each other
- listen: To carefully consider what someone is saying
- seat: To have seats available for a number of people
- robotic: Concerning mechanical robots
- wait: To delay or not do something until later
- variability: (Statistics) degree scores depart from the mean
- garden: Yard; ground outside your house to grow plants
- ready: Being likely or about to do something
- smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
- baby: A very young child, who cannot yet speak
- mouse: Small animal that has fur and a long tail
- leper: Person who carries the leprosy disease
- gamer: Person playing a game to a set of rules
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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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