Vocabulary
- off the ground: Having started or begun to operate or succeed.
- at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
- same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
- run to: To have enough money; be able to pay; afford
- have to: Must do
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- miserable: Very unhappy
- scratch: To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
- similar: Nearly the same; alike
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- crawl: To move very slowly or cautiously
- cast: People who appear in a play or movie
- parallel: To be equal to, or like, something else
- lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
- ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
- revelation: Act of making something known or seen
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- important: Having power or authority
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- internalize: To accept attitudes, behavior as part of yourself
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- stand: To be a candidate in an election
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- squad: A sports team
- phobia: Extreme fear
- land: Region or country
- lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
- pose: To be or exist as (a problem, threat etc.)
- bar: Piece of (soap, chocolate etc.)
- stupid: Not intelligent; lacking ability to learn easily
- labyrinth: Something complex and challenging to understand
- height: Distance of something from the bottom to the top
- gangster: Member of a gang of violent criminals
- crazy: Mentally ill; mad
- meltdown: Very large disaster, where everything goes wrong
- dirty: Not clean
- possum: Small furry Australian animal that lives in trees
- demo: Showing how something works (e.g. a new product)
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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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Carol Chen posted on 2018/01/17Ever wondered if Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling could nail the iconic Dirty Dancing lift? You'll get a hilarious behind-the-scenes look at their attempt and learn some fun situational dialogue along the way! This is a perfect chance to practice simple sentence structures with a super entertaining story.
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