Vocabulary
- go ahead: To start an activity; start doing, working etc.
- bear with me: Be patient with me.
- hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
- look after: To take care of someone or something
- individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
- brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
- endeavor: To attempt or make effort to do something
- core: To take out the central section of a fruit
- blow: To move something using air
- extra: More than necessary; additional
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- prank: Trick performed to make people look foolish
- ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
- destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- proposal: Act of asking someone to marry you
- bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
- depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- mate: A friend who you work, live, or go to school with
- crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
- bring: To take or go with someone to a place
- make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- fill: To make something full
- space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
- bang: To strike something loudly or forcefully
- future: Time that is to come after the present
- minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
- knock: Bad experience that reduces a person's confidence
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
- demolish: To destroy completely (e.g. an idea, a building)
- demolition: Act or state of being destroyed or torn down
- factory: Building where things are made
- wood: Person's name
- wrecking: To ruin something completely
- safe: Highly likely
- wee: Scottish and Northern English small; short
- ballpark: Facility in which ball games are played
- fax: To transmit documents with a facsimile machine
- homework: Work that a student is given to do at home
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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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