Vocabulary
- sit down: To take a seat
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
- do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
- in itself: Considered alone or without reference to anything else; intrinsically.
- come up: To come closer to someone; approach
- family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
- turn off
- set aside: To reject or throw away, e.g. an idea
- at least: As a minimum
- in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
- absolutely: Completely; totally; very
- approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
- process: To organize and use data in a computer
- deliberate: Carefully thought out in advance
- effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
- period: Set amount of time during which events take place
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
- procrastination: Act of putting off something you ought to do
- completely: In every way or as much as possible
- accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
- identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
- combination: Series of letters or numbers needed to open a lock
- reward: To give something because of someone's good work
- commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
- method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
- desire: To wish for, hope or want something
- initial: First letter of your given name
- form: Sports team or person's current winning record
- define: To explain the meaning of words
- result: Something produced through tests or experiments
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- invest: To use resources to build for the future
- magnitude: Number representing force of an earthquake
- social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
- important: Having power or authority
- order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- overlap: To lie over or cover a part of something else
- chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
- drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- turn: To become (a particular age)
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- skim: To remove fat, etc. from the top of a liquid
- broadly: In a general (not detailed) manner
- pre: A prefix meaning 'before'
- tee: Small object used to hit a golf ball from
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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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