Vocabulary
- in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
- as a matter of fact: In reality; actually; used to emphasize the truth of a statement, often when it differs from what someone might expect or believe.
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
- work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
- episode: One separate event in a series of events
- phrase: Common expression or saying
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
- content: Being happy or satisfied
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- improve: To make, or become, something better
- matter: To be of great importance; to count
- structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
- immediately: Without any delay; straight away
- wrap: Piece of clothing worn loosely on the shoulders
- fluent: Doing something well and with ease
- sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
- complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
- separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
- chunk: A large bit of something; thick lump
- mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
- drill: A machine that makes holes with a metal bit
- express: To send something by fast mail
- describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
- reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
- substitute: To perform the tasks instead of someone else
- grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
- messy: Being complex or difficult to fix
- result: Something produced through tests or experiments
- explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
- subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
- linguistic: Of or relating to language
- film: Thin layer that covers something
- respond: To answer something or someone
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- objective: Being real, rather than simply being an idea
- flexible: Bending easily
- analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
- apologize: To say sorry because of a mistake or injury
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- postpone: To schedule for a later time
- intuitively: In a manner based on feelings rather than facts
- adjective: A word that describes a noun, e.g. happy
- fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
- clause: Part of a sentence that has its own verb
- usage: Amount something is used
- correspond: To have similarity or equality with something
- dot: To place small amounts/things in various places
- phrasal: Concerning or consisting of a phrase
- unit: One apartment in a building
- grammatically: Correctly; as expected in correct grammar
- reflex: Body's physical reaction done unconsciously
- substitution: Act of replacing one person or thing to do a job
- ray: Person's name
- causative: Producing an effect
- reflexive: Of words that show the action is done to yourself
- sh: Sound people make to make someone be quiet
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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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