Vocabulary
- conversation skills: The ability to communicate effectively and engage in meaningful exchanges with others.
- in the game: Still involved or active in a competition or situation.
- see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- request for: A formal application or appeal for something.
- tag on: To add something extra or join a group or activity.
- on a daily basis: Happening every day.
- in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
- tell on: To report someone's bad behavior to an authority.
- apart from: Except for; not considering
- reflect on: To think deeply or carefully about something.
- take some time: To allocate or dedicate a period to a specific activity or purpose.
- think back: To recapture the past
- in question: Being doubted or disputed; under discussion.
- have to: Must do
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
- recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- genuine: Being real, actual, and not false or artificial
- improve: To make, or become, something better
- vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
- positive: Showing agreement or support for something
- negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
- tend: To move or act in a certain manner
- aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
- conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
- fluent: Doing something well and with ease
- express: To send something by fast mail
- reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
- casual: Being careless or having little thought or effort
- lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
- convey: To carry or transport something
- tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
- handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
- grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
- private: Being away from others and quiet
- reflection: Sign or indication of a state or condition
- analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
- fluently: In an able and easy manner
- haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- informal: Casual; relaxed
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- information: Collection of facts and details about something
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- offend: To break a rule or do something wrong
- mixture: Something made by combining two or more things
- great: Very good; better than before
- perfect: So good it cannot be improved
- question: To ask for or try to get information
- tan: A light brown color
- multitude: Large number of people or things; crowd
- oyster: An edible marine mollusk
- incline: To bend the head or body forward
- squish: To walk through mud or puddles
- hardcore: (Of sex films, etc.) extremely explicit
- tag: Child's game in which one person chases the others
- voucher: Paper that is exchanged for goods or services
- confirmation: Approval or check of something
- impolite: Not showing good manners or behavior
- online: Connected to the internet
- yuck: Used to express rejection or strong disgust
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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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