Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- cheer up: To make or become happier or less upset
- found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
- crucial: Extremely important or necessary
- matter: To be of great importance; to count
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- positive: Showing agreement or support for something
- describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
- exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
- instantly: In a manner without delay; immediately
- benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
- effect: An advantage, benefit
- mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
- transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- question: To ask for or try to get information
- discover: To find something new that was not known before
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- university: High-level educational institution; college
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
- list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
- picture: General situation or state of being
- happen: To take place or occur
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- cheer: Feeling of happiness or optimism
- tad: A small amount of something
- unhappy: Not feeling happy; sad or worried
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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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