Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- on to: Toward something; forward
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- stick by
- draw conclusions: To make a judgment or form an opinion based on the information available.
- all the things: Everything; all items or aspects
- see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
- with just: Using only; with no more than.
- per year: For each year; annually.
- account for: To explain the cause or reason for something
- as long as: For the period that; provided that.
- in terms of
- make up: To invent or create a story
- hair: Long thin strands growing on your head or body
- hairy: Having or covered with a lot of hair
- student: Person studying at school
- animal: A living creature that is not a plant or person
- show: To be easily seen or displayed
- learning: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- small: Little in size; not big
- hospital: Building for sick people, with doctors and nurses
- sport: Something that is done for fun, e.g. football
- winner: Person or thing that wins a contest or race
- glue: Sticky substance used for joining things together
- seat: To have seats available for a number of people
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
- cookbook: Book containing recipes showing how to make dishes
- quickly: Without taking a lot of time; fast
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- memorize: To study something so that you remember it
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- colleague: Person you work or cooperate with
- story: One of many floors or levels in a building
- guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
- belt: To leave somewhere quickly (UK use)
- stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- society: A group who meet to share values or interests
- invention: Something new that is different from other things
- design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
- robot: Machine able perform more tasks that people can
- discover: To find something new that was not known before
- recipe: Conditions likely to create a particular result
- curious: Wanting to know more about something
- split: No longer married or in a relationship
- force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
- research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
- technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
- challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- inspire: To give someone an idea to do or make something
- curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
- beam: To send out information, signals, or light
- trap: Device used for catching animals
- graduate: Concerning a Masters or Ph.D. university courses
- discovery: Learning something for the first time
- ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
- device: Object, machine, or equipment for a specific use
- involvement: Act or process of joining in a particular activity
- researcher: Someone who works to find new facts and ideas
- frustrated: Annoyed because things don't go the way you want
- measurement: Size or amount of something or someone
- infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
- bizarre: Odd or strange
- emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
- chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
- hypothesis: A theory trying to explain something
- gecko: Small chiefly tropical, nocturnal lizard
- secrete: To hide something so it will not be seen or found
- adhesive: A substance used for gluing one thing to another
- synthetic: Not natural; made from artificial materials
- velcro: Fasten with Velcro
- tarantula: Large hairy poisonous tropical spider
- Orient: Area comprising Asia
- automotive: Concerning cars
- suction: Process of extracting air, as to cause to stick
- sophomore: Someone in second year in high school or college
- probe: To carefully examine an issue by asking questions
- undergraduate: A college student studying for their first degree
- innovate: To introduce or create new things or make changes
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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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