Vocabulary
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
- have to: Must do
- shut up: To close something, e.g. a shop
- turn red: To blush or become flushed, usually due to embarrassment or shyness.
- thumbs up: A gesture of approval or agreement, indicated by holding a fist with the thumb extended upwards.
- check out
- privilege: Advantage or right given to only certain people
- hilarious: Extremely amusing; very funny
- recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
- trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
- crap: Impolite way of saying something is not good; Faeces
- expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
- fluent: Doing something well and with ease
- reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
- strict: Tending to enforce rules; severe
- exotic: Being very different or unusual
- belly: Middle part of the body; the stomach
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
- flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
- relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
- racism: Belief that people of other races are bad/inferior
- costume: Special clothes, e.g. clothes for acting in a film
- allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
- documentary: Supported by written evidence
- millionaire: Person with 1,000,000 dollars, euros etc. or more
- fortunate: Having good luck
- offend: To break a rule or do something wrong
- terrible: Very bad; horrible
- ignorant: Lacking knowledge, awareness or information
- wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
- tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
- lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
- arrange: To write music for a particular instrument
- marriage: Relationship between a husband and a wife
- veggie: Shortened form of vegetable
- dot: To place small amounts/things in various places
- forehead: Area of the face above the eyes
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- shake: To cause someone to be surprised or upset
- virgin: Someone who did not do a thing before; first timer
- swift: Quick
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- video: Recording capturing action with sound
- visit: To go to a place for a time, usually for a reason
- call: A order or request for action
- spicy: Hot and strongly flavored in taste
- touch: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
- crazy: Mentally ill; mad
- christianity: Beliefs, practices based on teachings of Jesus
- wedding: To combine and join two things together as one
- tad: A small amount of something
- latte: Espresso coffee filled up with hot milk
- islam: Religion of Muslims based on the Koran
- pa: Father
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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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