Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- come at: To approach someone to attack them
- see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
- on the street: Located on or along a public road in a town or city.
- in terms of
- check out
- subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
- pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
- recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
- expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- improve: To make, or become, something better
- native: Someone from or born in a specific country
- vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
- negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
- structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
- conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
- sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
- wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
- regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- tense: The use of grammar to state the time things happen
- form: Sports team or person's current winning record
- grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
- subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
- reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
- guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
- quiz: A game in which players answer questions on topics
- essay: Short piece of written opinion on a subject
- object: Something you can see or touch, but is not alive
- correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
- combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
- informal: Casual; relaxed
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- important: Having power or authority
- channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- invite: To ask someone to go somewhere or do something
- confuse: To make something unclear or hard to understand
- airport: A place where passenger planes land and take off
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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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