Vocabulary
- work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
- miss out: To exclude; not include in something
- for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
- have to: Must do
- cut down: To reduce your use of something
- got to: To arrive at some place
- context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
- comprehension: Act of understanding, e.g. a reading text
- sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
- method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
- track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
- kinda: Short way of saying 'kind of'
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- path: Method of living leading to a particular result
- advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
- article: Word such as 'a', 'an', or 'the' used before nouns
- feedback: A response or opinion, about a service, etc.
- suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
- summarize: To state the main or most important ideas
- paragraph: Section of writing dealing with one point
- important: Having power or authority
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- information: Collection of facts and details about something
- promise: To say you will certainly do something
- passage: Process of moving through time
- step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
- skill: Ability to do something well
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- part: Division of a book
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- trust: To expect confidently
- improvement: Addition or change that makes something better
- enable: To make it possible to do something
- deeply: To a significant degree
- dot: To place small amounts/things in various places
- video: Recording capturing action with sound
- message: Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
- underline: To draw a line beneath a word or phrase
- toefl: Test Of English as a Foreign Language
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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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