Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- in the process of: During the course of; while something is happening or being done.
- care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
- give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
- stop working: To cease performing a task or function; to become non-operational.
- work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
- work out
- know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
- hang out: To spend time with your friends
- in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
- as long as: For the period that; provided that.
- for myself: Done for one's own benefit or use.
- to die for: Extremely desirable or enjoyable.
- no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
- blow up: To suddenly become angry
- cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
- count on: To depend on someone
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- stop: To block or close something
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- live: To be alive
- working: To bring into a specific state of success
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- die: Cube with dots numbering 1-6 on it used in games
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- unstoppable: Not capable of being stopped
- face: To cover a surface with something like paint
- talk: Style of speaking
- bad: Not good; wrong
- person: Man, woman or child
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- dream: A wish or hope for something to happen
- level: Specific height of something
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- steal: A bargain; something bought very cheaply
- mind: To be bothered or upset by something
- care: To feel interest, concern, or worry
- special: Being additional or extra
- happen: To take place or occur
- earn: To deserve something because you worked for it
- bother: To cause problems, concerns or worry for someone
- engineer: Someone whose job is designing machines, buildings
- push: To move into enemy country with a military attack
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- join: To bring something close to another, to become one
- pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
- separating: To divide two things by being in between them
- fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
- challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
- proud: Very good; worthy of making one pleased
- design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
- refuse: To not accept, allow, or give something
- disappointment: Feeling or state of not being satisfied
- rob: Person's name
- disappointing: To not meet the expectations of others or yourself
- review: To carefully look at the quality of something
- attitude: Way you act, think and feel about something
- attach: To be associated or connected with
- attract: To make something move closer using magnetic force
- rough: Causing or involving violence, force, and harm
- complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
- invest: To use resources to build for the future
- represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
- failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
- breed: Kind of / sort of
- economically: In an efficient manner
- stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
- council: Group chosen to make decisions about something
- victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
- concerned: To be about a particular topic
- feature: Special report in a magazine or paper
- define: To explain the meaning of words
- vision: Ability to see; eyesight
- risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
- reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
- uncommon: Not typical; not normal; unusual
- incur: To bring something (bad) on yourself
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- esoteric: Being known only by a few people; obscure
- unreasonable: Being too high, or otherwise inappropriate
- align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
- rejection: Decision that something is not good enough
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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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VoiceTube posted on 2014/05/31Ready to chase that big dream? This video is packed with powerful motivation to help you overcome any failure and invest in yourself, even if you're juggling work and life! You'll pick up simple sentence structures and gain knowledge that will inspire you to believe in yourself and make no excuses.
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