Vocabulary
- to die for: Extremely desirable or enjoyable.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
- check out
- pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
- description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
- tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
- conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
- suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
- scene: Incident where someone behaves angrily, badly
- recipe: Conditions likely to create a particular result
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- portion: Serving of food that is intended for one person
- pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- syllable: Part of a word containing a vowel
- encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
- idiom: Phrase with a special, metaphoric meaning
- layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
- rude: Being unkind or impolite to others; disrespectful
- transition: Change from one state, movement, place to another
- film: Thin layer that covers something
- pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
- emotion: A feeling such as sadness, anger or love
- reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
- whip: To defeat thoroughly or easily
- reduction: Act of making something smaller
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
- bottom: The part of your body you sit on
- click: To work well with someone or something
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- connect: To associate a thing with something else
- speech: A formal talk to an audience
- vanilla: Having the taste of vanilla
- bring: To take or go with someone to a place
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- exceptional: Being extremely and unusually good
- make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
- fur: Hairy coat of an animal
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- sauce: Food made from cooked fruit, e.g. apples or mangos
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- cousin: Child of your uncle or aunt
- come: To arrive at a place
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- bonus: Extra money for achieving, exceeding targets
- list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
- delicious: Very pleasing to eat; especially pleasing
- bossy: Always telling others what to do
- monster: Large frightening imaginary creature
- cream: Pale color that is yellowish white
- flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
- placement: Act of putting something in a place or position
- raspberry: Small, soft, red fruit that grows on a bush
- peach: Round sweet furry fruit that grows on trees
- bon: Good
- sh: Sound people make to make someone be quiet
- ch: Abbreviation for Chapter
Get the full experience in the app
Learn anywhere with detailed sentence and usage analysis
01:03
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.
Get the full experience in the app
Look up words anytime with pronunciation, part of speech, and usage
brave
US/brev/
UK/breɪv/
adj.Brave
v.t.To bravely face
A2 Elementary
Get the full experience in the app
Practice speaking anytime and get instant pronunciation feedback
Try this speaking exercise.
Try practicing with this sentence.
80
0
Darren posted on 2017/04/23Ever wonder how native speakers talk so fast? This video dives into American pronunciation, showing you how 'flap T' and 'schwa' sounds make conversations flow naturally! You'll pick up cool idioms and reductions that'll make your English sound super authentic.
Learn this video on the APP!
The VoiceTube App has more in-depth practice for videos!
