Vocabulary
- pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
- situation: Place, position or area that something is in
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
- vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
- immediately: Without any delay; straight away
- general: Widespread, normal or usual
- describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
- amount: Quantity of something
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
- annoying: To make someone angry
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
- tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
- effectively: In a way that produces the desired result
- vivid: Having very clear details and seeming to be real
- dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
- series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
- grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
- attention: Taking notice of someone or something
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
- fluently: In an able and easy manner
- foreign: Being of a different place or country
- favorite: A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most
- limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- basis: Main ingredient or part of something
- taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
- amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
- shadow: To cover something with shade
- shout: To speak very loudly to get attention
- chant: To repeat a word or groups of words continuously
- actionable: Something you can act on
- yummy: (Of food) delicious; very tasty
- online: Connected to the internet
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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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Evangeline posted on 2021/02/17Want to boost your English fluency and pick up some awesome new vocabulary? Nana shares super practical tips on how to use TV shows and novels for daily practice, including fun techniques like dramatic shadowing. You'll learn how to make your learning feel like a game and pick up useful food-related phrases along the way!
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