Vocabulary
- walk away: To leave a situation, especially a difficult or unpleasant one.
- in town: Present or available in the local area or city.
- strike back: To retaliate or counterattack.
- have to: Must do
- run away from: To run somewhere, e.g. to escape from something
- out of line: Not following the rules or accepted standards of behaviour; inappropriate.
- part: Division of a book
- town: Small city
- message: Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
- difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
- clean: Completely; entirely
- phone: To talk to someone using a telephone
- send: To cause to behave or respond in a particular way
- walk: To move with your legs at a slowish pace
- fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- run: To depart or travel according to a schedule
- tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
- man: Humans in general, including male and female
- stop: To block or close something
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- office: Room or building used for business
- hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
- channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
- costly: Being very expensive, often wasteful
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- win: Success in beating the other team or competitors
- mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
- lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
- dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
- enter: To start a career or an education
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- meeting: To provide something that is necessary
- history: Established pattern or record
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- line: Border that divides two places or regions
- hunt: To search for wild animals to kill (for food)
- troubling: To worry, bother or disturb someone
- convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
- delete: To remove or erase something
- terrified: Very frightened
- step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
- murder: Something that is difficult or painful to do
- marriage: Relationship between a husband and a wife
- blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
- vote: To make a choice for or against, as in an election
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- strike: To hit something
- chapter: Small local group forming part of a larger one
- sir: Form of polite address to a man you do not know
- proud: Very good; worthy of making one pleased
- obedience: Doing what someone tells you to; compliance
- disastrous: Having very unfortunate or terrible consequences
- submit: To accept a superior force has power over you
- calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
- assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
- cast: People who appear in a play or movie
- exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
- administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
- mainstream: Prevailing current of thought
- goddamn: Very bad; terrible
- slate: To strongly criticize someone usually in public
- rattlesnake: Pit snake with a tail that rattle when shaken
- conspiracy: Plan made in secret to do something illegal
- overrated: To put too high a value or worth on; overpraise
- discharge: To complete a task that has been assigned
- heartbeat: Beat of your heart
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
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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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