Vocabulary
- at a time: Separately; one by one
- on the phone: Talking on the telephone.
- have to: Must do
- next door: Living in the house next to the one mentioned
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- interact with
- without knowing: Unaware; without being conscious of something.
- into the stratosphere: To rise rapidly to a very high level or amount.
- in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
- around the world: In or to many countries.
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- lunch: Light meal eaten in the middle of the day
- know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
- number: Symbols such as 1, 2, 56, 793
- person: Man, woman or child
- tennis: Game played by hitting a ball over a net
- restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
- pen: Small fenced area where people or animals are kept
- photo: Short for photograph; a picture taken by a camera
- breakfast: First meal of the day
- letter: One of the 26 parts of the English alphabet
- museum: Building to display art/science/history objects
- cat: Household pet with fur, four legs and long tail.
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- help: To act to enable a person to do something; assist
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- art: Creative skill using the imagination e.g. painting
- grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
- menu: List of dishes available at a restaurant
- share: Part-ownership in a property, business or company
- partner: One you have a business/personal relationship with
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- anymore: No longer; no more
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- future: Time that is to come after the present
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
- social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
- generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- niece: Daughter of your brother or sister
- behaving: To act correctly
- insist: To demand that someone do something
- friendship: Feeling of liking someone; good relationship
- organize: To arrange and plan things, e.g. a party
- frequently: Often; regularly
- landscape: Area or scene of activity, especially in politics
- blow: To move something using air
- communicate: To give and exchange information
- crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
- lab: Short for 'laboratory'
- network: Group of computers connected to each other
- interact: To talk or do things with each other
- emergence: The process of emerging, coming out
- redefine: To give a new explanation of or reason for
- cardboard: Lightweight paper board
- alter: To change so (clothing) fits better
- unpredictable: Difficult to guess about (the future)
- graduate: Concerning a Masters or Ph.D. university courses
- protest: To argue against something in a forceful way
- meaningful: Having importance; showing someone's intention
- encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
- naked: Not wearing any clothes; without covering
- maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
- reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
- mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
- literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
- interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
- dictate: To speak while someone writes down your words
- drastically: In a sudden, extreme or severe manner
- finite: Having limits; lasting for a limited time
- filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
- core: To take out the central section of a fruit
- herd: Group of the same animal that eat, live together
- quill: Pen made from a bird's feather
- plutonium: Radioactive metallic element
- coworker: A person who you work with, especially someone with a similar job or level of responsibility
- stratosphere: Layer of Earth's atmosphere
- burrito: Flour tortilla folded around a filling
- topple: To cause a government/leader to be overthrown
- sarcasm: Harsh or cutting remark
- dictator: Ruler who decides everything, and enforces it
- flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
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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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