Vocabulary
- ring in: To call by telephone.
- talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
- full day: A complete day, from morning to night.
- to the day: Exactly on the date specified, without any difference.
- the following: Next in order or sequence.
- have to: Must do
- in style: Fashionable; popular
- hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
- tone down: To make something less forceful, intense, or extreme.
- check out
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
- stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
- sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
- strike: To hit something
- awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
- dumb: Senseless; stupid
- previous: Existing or happening before the present time
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- exotic: Being very different or unusual
- population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
- huge: Very very large
- cabin: Small basic wooden home in the countryside
- actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
- rave: A dance party with loud music
- hell: Any place of pain and suffering
- count: To add things together to find the total number
- tone: Atmosphere or feeling in a message
- bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
- cliff: High, vertical or steep surface of rock or ice
- important: Having power or authority
- joint: Body parts where bones meet and can move together
- crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- presume: To assume that something is true till proven false
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- marathon: Lasting for a long time
- celebrate: To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
- turn: To become (a particular age)
- beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
- front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
- wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
- check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
- problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
- solstice: Time of year when sun is farthest away from Earth
- diner: Person who dines; customer in restaurant
- diving: To swim deep under water with an air supply
- ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
- skate: Flat sea fish
- karaoke: Singing popular songs to a prerecorded soundtrack
- midnight: 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
- eve: The time just before something happens
- disco: Public dance hall for dancing to popular music
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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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