Vocabulary
- theme music: A recurring piece of music associated with a particular film, television program, or event.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
- at a time: Separately; one by one
- off the ground: Having started or begun to operate or succeed.
- spin out: To prolong or extend something, often unnecessarily.
- out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
- subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
- awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
- gorgeous: Extremely attractive; richly beautiful
- flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
- emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
- dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
- series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
- suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
- rough: Causing or involving violence, force, and harm
- challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
- spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
- thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
- rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
- theme: An main or dominant idea, motif
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- react: To change when mixing with other chemicals
- channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
- control: A device designed to operate a machine
- upbeat: Being positive and cheerful
- rejection: Decision that something is not good enough
- amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
- fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- great: Very good; better than before
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
- difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
- bite: Amount of food taken into your mouth at one time
- laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
- echo: (Of a place) to be filled with repeating sounds
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- village: Small town in the country
- severely: Extremely bad or harsh
- witty: Making a joke in a clever or intelligent way
- shovel: Long tool used for digging; type of spade
- cheat: To be unfaithful to (your wife, boyfriend etc.)
- giggle: To laugh in a childish or silly way
- laughter: Action or sound of laughing
- stupid: Not intelligent; lacking ability to learn easily
- zombie: Dead person who exists among the living
- stifle: To hold back (a yawn, opposition etc.); smother
- humor: Quality that makes something funny
- plump: Large and round; slightly fat, in a pleasant way
- mumbling: To speak without being clear or loud enough
- video: Recording capturing action with sound
- waterfront: Harbor or dockyard of city near the water
- cute: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way
- phone: To talk to someone using a telephone
- buzzer: Button that rings when pushed
- hairspray: Spray used to hold hair in place
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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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