Vocabulary
- back up: To save a copy of your computer data
- out there: In or to a place that is far away
- take for example: To use as an instance or illustration.
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- in the air: Present or circulating in the atmosphere.
- with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
- in charge: To be responsible for
- up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
- go away: To go on vacation
- think on: To consider something carefully before making a decision.
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
- desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- crap: Impolite way of saying something is not good; Faeces
- strength: Condition of being strong
- position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
- spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
- increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
- precise: (Of language details etc.) Very accurate and exact
- automatically: In a way not requiring control by a person
- predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
- state: Region within a country, with its own government
- venture: (Business) activity involving calculated risks
- federal: Consisting of several united states
- simply: In an easy or clear manner
- section: A part of a whole
- charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
- advance: Forward movement by an army
- outcome: Something that happens as a result, consequence
- drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
- relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
- article: Word such as 'a', 'an', or 'the' used before nouns
- element: Essential or particular part of something
- era: Period characterized by particular events, people
- crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
- merchandise: Goods for sale
- instruction: A command for someone formally to do something
- bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
- notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
- manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
- control: A device designed to operate a machine
- claw: Long, sharp, and usually curved nail of an animal
- information: Collection of facts and details about something
- piece: A counter in a board game
- transportation: Act of moving people or goods between places
- program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
- chance: The way something happens without planning
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- enthusiast: A person having a strong liking for something
- crackdown: Increased effort to enforce the law or a rule
- rig: To dishonestly fix the result of elections, games
- slot: A long narrow opening to put a coin, etc. in
- prohibit: To make something impossible
- problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
- classify: To arrange things into groups of similar items
- calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
- graze: (Of cows, etc.) to eat grass growing in a field
- crane: Water bird characterized by its long neck and legs
- unfair: not treating people in an equal way, or not morally right
- gambling: Act of betting money on events
- mole: Small animal with dark fur that lives under ground
- koala: Small tree-living Australian grey animal
- joystick: Moveable manual control for computer games
- horrify: To cause someone to feel horror or shock
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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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