Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- tone in: To adjust or harmonize one’s tone to match others.
- in the air: Present or circulating in the atmosphere.
- in touch: Having contact or communication with someone.
- in mind: Being aware of or considering something.
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- got to: To arrive at some place
- look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
- think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
- play out: To use up or exhaust
- going on: To continue doing something
- come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
- in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
- phrase: Common expression or saying
- context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
- quote: Written statement of the cost of something
- technique: Way of doing by using special knowledge or skill
- pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- demonstrate: To display a feeling or ability openly
- compelling: To force someone to do something
- evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- reveal: To show something that was hidden before
- character: Person in a story, movie or play
- realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
- audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
- extreme: Very great in degree
- scene: Incident where someone behaves angrily, badly
- represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
- fantastic: Strange or unusual in design or appearance
- task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
- script: Written text of a book, play, film, or speech
- underestimate: To make too low a guess of something's size, value
- craft: To make by hand and with much skill
- describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
- frame: To make a person that is not guilty appear guilty
- deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
- intention: Aim or purpose
- glimpse: To see or notice something very briefly
- decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
- behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
- dialogue: Conversation between two or more individuals
- compare: To consider how similar and different things are
- adapt: To change something for a different function
- concise: Being brief and to the point; short
- portray: To play a character in theater or on film
- analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
- anatomy: Scientific study of the structure of (human) body
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- important: Having power or authority
- previously: At an earlier time
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- protagonist: Main character in a story
- descriptive: Telling what something is like or looks like
- information: Collection of facts and details about something
- point: An item to be discussed
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- boom: Very fast increase in growth or popularity
- rape: To force someone to have sex against their will
- funnel: to send something directly and intentionally.
- incorrect: Being wrong or inaccurate
- triangle: Three people connected with each in a relationship
- ugly: (E.g. of a situation) bad; likely to turn nasty
- nick: Person's name
- storytelling: Act of telling or relating stories
- screenplay: Movie script that includes movement and speech
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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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