Vocabulary
- in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- in advance: Ahead of time; before something happens
- figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
- have to: Must do
- give out: To be used up; have nothing left; fail
- boat: Small form of transport for traveling on water
- sit: To take an exam
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- cold: Illness of sneezing, coughing, and a sore throat
- short: (Of electric circuit) to spark because faulty
- timing: To check speed at which music is performed
- interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
- word: Unit of language that has a meaning
- bad: Not good; wrong
- shoe: Outer covering for the foot, often made of leather
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- stop: To block or close something
- study: To focus on learning something usually at school
- shop: Place to learn how to fix or make things; class
- toy: Things children play with, as dolls or small cars
- kid: Child or young person
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- sixth: 6th
- plan: Drawing of how something should be done or made
- top: To be higher or larger than a specific value
- space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
- trip: To release an electrical switch
- license: To give official permission to do something
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
- prize: Something won in a contest or given as an award
- badly: Not in a good way; not as wanted or liked
- advance: Forward movement by an army
- cod: Type of large fish that is often eaten
- tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
- pour: To fill a person's glass or cup with a drink
- speech: A formal talk to an audience
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- messed: To make something untidy or dirty
- fare: Money people pay to travel on buses, taxis, boats
- irregular: Happening at unequal spaced distances or times
- pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
- locked: To become fixed in place and hard to move
- shine: To point a light in a certain direction
- phrase: Common expression or saying
- regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
- effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
- extremely: In a way that is much more than usual or expected
- weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
- tracing: To make an outline to determine a shape
- vary: To change something and make it different
- legally: In a way that is allowed by or related to laws
- twisted: To turn something in a circular direction
- rhythm: Pattern of events, motions, or changes
- confusion: Not knowing what to do; state of disorder
- cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
- seek: To ask someone for help
- classic: Having a simple, basic design or style
- specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
- actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
- isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
- devise: To think of and plan something
- blend: To combine different elements or substances
- crush: Strong attraction to someone
- curd: Solid substance forming in milk when it sours
- cop: Slang for police officer
- blending: To combine different elements or substances
- ta: Hard grey lustrous metallic element
- twister: Violent windstorm revolving around central point
- tweet: Weak chirping sound as of a small bird
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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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