Vocabulary
- essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
- vital: Needed to support life; essential
- elaborate: To explain something in detail
- properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
- guarantee: To promise to repair a broken product
- embrace: Act of holding someone closely
- acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
- attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
- intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
- hygiene: Cleanliness; being clean
- fluent: Doing something well and with ease
- reward: To give something because of someone's good work
- freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
- insecure: Lacking confidence or certainty about yourself
- instrument: Gauge for measuring something, e.g. temperature
- exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
- worth: the financial, practical or moral value of somebody/something
- gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
- intimidate: To make someone feel afraid
- tolerate: To be able to adjust to changes of various kinds
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- clever: Funny in a way that shows intelligence
- resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
- ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
- sake: Japanese rice wine
- appeal: Ability to attract interest, attention, or desire
- synthetic: Not natural; made from artificial materials
- journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
- grasp: Person's control over something
- novelty: Items that are unusual, interesting, or unique
- parallel: To be equal to, or like, something else
- apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
- accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
- persuade: To try to make someone to do, believe something
- mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
- caffeine: Substance in coffee, etc. that keeps you awake
- dwell: To live in a certain place
- minor: Not so large in size; not important or valuable
- tidy: With things in their proper place; not messy
- surpass: To go beyond or achieve more than someone
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- weed: (Childish use) to urinate; go to the bathroom
- sanity: Normal or sound powers of mind
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- facial: Treatment to improve condition of the skin of face
- conserve: To save or protect something
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- pretentious: Trying to seem more cultured/clever than you are
- repeatedly: (Said, done) many times; over and over
- floss: To move thin thread to clean between your teeth
- check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
- vigorously: With a lot of energy or strength
- childhood: The time when you are a child
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- monetize: To make money from your invention or ideas
- chuckle: To laugh quietly, as when amused
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- considerably: Quite a lot; to a large degree
- expensive: Costing a lot of money
- tactical: Doing things to get the result you want; planned
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- forget: To not remember something
- crippling: To hurt and make useless
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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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