Vocabulary
- ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
- thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
- progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
- journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
- realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
- character: Person in a story, movie or play
- executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
- career: Particular occupation in professional life
- commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
- trial: Hearing and judgment of a case in court
- relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
- suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
- financial: Involving money
- pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
- series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
- stumble: Failing to do something well, e.g. giving a speech
- security: Department in a company in charge of protection
- spoil: To damage something, usually by treating it poorly
- laundry: Business or room to wash bed sheets, clothes etc.
- perk: An advantage or something extra, such as money or goods, that you are given because of your job
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- click: To work well with someone or something
- scary: Causing fear; frightening
- credit: System to buy something and pay for it later
- totally: In a complete way; completely; absolutely
- hype: Advertising, writing, or talk to spark interest
- clueless: Totally uninformed about what is going on
- protagonist: Main character in a story
- pilot: To conduct a small practice experiment
- streak: An continuous amount of something, e.g. luck
- persona: Personality that you project in public
- adult: Person or animal that is fully grown
- stand: To be a candidate in an election
- assert: To state or declare your ideas positively strongly
- person: Man, woman or child
- quit: To leave a job
- make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
- possessive: Wanting someone's complete attention, love
- jealousy: Unhappy feeling of wanting what someone else has
- fiasco: An event that goes wrong in an embarrassing way
- season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
- lobster: Large hard-shelled sea crustacean, prized as food
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- dead: Not alive
- oblivious: Being unaware of someone or something
- lukewarm: Being unenthusiastic about something
- trifle: Thing that is of little value; trivial affair
- buildup: Making people feel excited about some new event
- heroine: Woman of great courage/strength who saves others
- dissatisfied: Feeling displeased or unhappy about something
- unsure: Lacking confidence or certainty
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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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