Vocabulary
- bugger all: Almost nothing; very little or no amount.
- to bits: Broken into many small pieces; completely ruined.
- cock up: To make a serious mistake or to mess something up badly.
- in trouble: Experiencing difficulties, problems, or legal issues.
- shoot the breeze: To chat in a relaxed and informal way.
- shooting the breeze: To chat in a relaxed and informal way.
- have to: Must do
- skip work: To be absent from work without permission or a valid reason.
- screw up: Spoken to make a big mistake
- check out
- put together: To build or assemble something small, e.g. a toy
- talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
- meet with: To have a meeting with someone in order to discuss something.
- turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
- get lost: An impolite way of telling someone to go away.
- toss up: A situation in which either of two possibilities is equally likely.
- come from: To have as your native country or city
- be with: To accompany someone; to be in someone's presence.
- being with: Accompanying someone; being in someone's presence.
- on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
- awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
- introvert: Person who does not like social contact
- recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
- guarantee: To promise to repair a broken product
- description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
- flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
- brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
- impressive: Causing admiration or respect; grand or expensive
- sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
- crave: To have a very strong desire for something
- butt: (Informal) fleshy part of your body you sit on
- celebrity: A (famous) entertainer known by many people
- screw: To cheat someone, as out of money/property
- charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
- signature: Something that represents a person's work or style
- intelligent: Smart; able to think and reason
- idiom: Phrase with a special, metaphoric meaning
- religious: Following the rules and beliefs of a faith
- polite: Showing good manners or respect for other people
- beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
- thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
- thrill: Thing/event causing sudden excitement or pleasure
- guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
- ditch: To abandon or give up a plan, etc.
- quarter: 25 cents
- gossip: To talk about others' private lives
- scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
- british: Concerning the culture and people of British
- hail: To speak of something with admiration/excitement
- verb: Word that expresses an action or state
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- fully: Completely or entirely
- score: A sharp mark or cut in the surface of something
- length: Distance from one end of a pool to the other
- breeze: To act in a confident way; walk, enter confidently
- chin: Part of your face below your mouth above your neck
- turn: To become (a particular age)
- guy: Man; boy; any person
- mighty: Having great strength or great size
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- noun: The subject or object of a sentence
- lawn: Fine cotton cloth, either plain or printed
- drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
- check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
- yell: A sudden loud cry or shout
- lesson: Something done to learn or teach something; class
- travel: To go to a place that is far away
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- slim: Being thin in an appealing way
- skip: Very large waste disposal bin
- wag: To move side to side or up and down repetitively
- bitch: To aggressively complain about something
- clap: To make loud sounds by striking the hands together
- cock: Adult male chicken
- diving: To swim deep under water with an air supply
- pork: Meat of a pig, used for food
- grandmother: Your mother or father's mother
- nah: Way of saying 'No'
- chit: Old use girl who is disrespectful to her elders
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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
A2 Elementary
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