Vocabulary
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- of course: Sure ; Certainly
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- rather than: More exactly; more correctly
- come together: To assemble or unite; to start working together.
- work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
- at work: Located at one's place of employment
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
- pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
- individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
- recap: Brief description of something that had been said
- expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
- improve: To make, or become, something better
- native: Someone from or born in a specific country
- vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
- scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
- express: To send something by fast mail
- hypothetical: Thought up, as an example; not being a real case
- complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
- chunk: A large bit of something; thick lump
- grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
- fluency: Ability to do something well and with ease
- expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
- advance: Forward movement by an army
- communicate: To give and exchange information
- obsess: To talk or think about someone, something too much
- correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
- fluently: In an able and easy manner
- foreign: Being of a different place or country
- goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
- frustrate: To make annoyed because things don't go well
- important: Having power or authority
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- preposition: Word such as 'at' 'on' etc. showing position/time
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- verb: Word that expresses an action or state
- great: Very good; better than before
- perfect: So good it cannot be improved
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- focus: To see clearly by adjusting your eyes or a camera
- translate: To change something into a different state
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
- think: To have an idea about something without certainty
- level: Specific height of something
- pronoun: A word that replaces a noun like 'it' 'she' etc.
- lamp: Device to produce light, using electricity/oil/gas
- modal: Verb like 'may' or 'can', showing a verb's mood
- hungry: Feeling a need or want to eat food
- invert: To turn the order of things backwards
- analyse: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
- adapter: A device to convert one electric plug to another
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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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