Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- take out: To apply for and get a license
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
- answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
- on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
- to the power of: Indicating exponentiation in math; repeated multiplication.
- by default: Automatically, unless the user specifies otherwise.
- come down to: To become in the end a matter of
- come up: To come closer to someone; approach
- nice try: Said when someone has made a good attempt at something but has not succeeded.
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- pen in: To confine or enclose someone or something in a small area.
- peace out: An informal way of saying goodbye.
- assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
- hilarious: Extremely amusing; very funny
- apparently: According to what you heard; from what can be seen
- extremely: In a way that is much more than usual or expected
- basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
- trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
- brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
- sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
- assignment: Task you are given to do (as in the armed forces)
- describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
- default: Automatic setting when no indicated preference
- attractive: Making you like them, as by being good-looking
- nerd: Intelligent but single-minded expert in a field
- reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
- risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
- expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
- explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
- register: To record your name on an official list; sign up
- pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
- technically: In an exact and particular manner
- racism: Belief that people of other races are bad/inferior
- civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
- frequency: Number of repetitions of (radio or sound) wave
- bottom: The part of your body you sit on
- genius: Person displaying a high level of intelligence
- sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
- detention: Act of keeping someone in jail or similar
- education: Academic field studying the practice of teaching
- immigrant: Person moving to another country to live there
- decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
- proud: Very good; worthy of making one pleased
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- stable: In a position where something does not fall over
- sin: Act that breaks a religious law
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- declaration: Stating the cost of things purchased overseas
- briefly: Using little time or resources
- reproduce: To make a copy of something
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
- grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
- problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
- classify: To arrange things into groups of similar items
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- penis: Male organ for copulation and urination
- answer: To reply to a question someone asks
- communism: Political system with state-controlled industry
- speechless: Temporarily unable to speak, as through shock
- testicle: One of two round male sex organs
- duck: To avoid doing something that is difficult
- bob: To move up and down repeatedly
- goat: Small animal with beard and horns
- quadrilateral: Four-sided polygon
- funniest: Causing the most laughter or amusement
- teddy: A soft toy resembling a bear; teddy bear
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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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