Vocabulary
- to the moon: Increasing quickly and significantly, often in value or excitement.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- made with: Containing a particular ingredient or material.
- in the open: Publicly; not secret.
- depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
- thumbs up: A gesture of approval or agreement, indicated by holding a fist with the thumb extended upwards.
- vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
- English: Language of the UK, USA, Nigeria and elsewhere
- call: A order or request for action
- myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
- today: This day; day that is happening now
- culture: Beliefs and customs of a particular group
- year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
- fly: Common flying insect, sometimes blue in color
- commonly: Typically, normally; not unusually
- popular: Liked or enjoyed by many people
- tick: To function properly or normally
- legend: List of explanations of symbols on map, etc.
- celebrate: To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
- gaze: Direction you are looking
- tradition: An event, custom or way common to a people or race
- Pacific: Relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean
- depict: To represent or describe something using words
- rank: To rate or class things
- wheat: A kind of grain that is used to make flour
- wine: Dark red color
- crown: To put a crown on to make someone a king/queen
- eat: To put food in your mouth
- reunion: Act of people meeting after being apart
- atlantic: Of the ocean between Africa and the Americas
- Chinese: Concerning the culture and people of China
- festival: Cultural event with a program of events
- flour: Powder made from a grain used in cooking
- immortality: State of never dying, e.g. because famous
- ray: Person's name
- similarity: Degree to which people or things are the same
- Taiwan: A government on the island of Taiwan established in by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
- moon: To expose your buttocks as a joke
- holiday: Day when people don't go to work or school
- autumn: The season when leaves fall off trees
- lantern: Light in a glass box that can be carried
- mid: At (or near) the middle point
- Thursday: Fourth day of the week; the day after Wednesday
- symbolize: To represent to show a thing's essential character
- barbecue: Grill used for cooking food over an open fire
- typhoon: Tropical cyclone created over oceans
- northwestern: Area in the north and west
- PM: PM is an acronym for Prime Minister
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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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