Vocabulary
- recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
- gorgeous: Extremely attractive; richly beautiful
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- comprehension: Act of understanding, e.g. a reading text
- motivation: Reason behind why someone did something
- reluctant: Experiencing or expressing unwillingness to do
- draw: To attract attention to someone or something
- series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
- plot: Small piece of land for a house growing crops etc.
- judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
- grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
- advance: Forward movement by an army
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
- fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
- immerse: To put something in liquid until it is covered
- dare: To challenge someone to do something that is risky
- guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
- strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
- intermediate: Between; in the middle; moderate
- accidentally: Unexpectedly; by mistake
- assign: To give someone a particular job to do
- science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
- habit: Loose clothing like a cloak, worn by monks, nuns
- terrible: Very bad; horrible
- information: Collection of facts and details about something
- confirm: To formally approve or check something
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- quirk: Strange aspect (of nature); strange habit
- middle: Place that is halfway between two things
- attend: To take care of someone in need
- front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- collect: By asking the receiver of a call to pay for it
- chart: Drawing showing information in a clear way
- skim: To remove fat, etc. from the top of a liquid
- borrow: To take and later return something from another
- interested: Having had your attention taken; curious
- understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
- crown: To put a crown on to make someone a king/queen
- share: Part-ownership in a property, business or company
- giveaway: Gift of public resources to benefit a small group
- level: Specific height of something
- elementary: Basic, simple, or essential
- unfortunate: Having bad luck; bringing a bad result
- twilight: Period of time just as the sun sets
- ray: Person's name
- bookstore: Shop where books are sold
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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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