Vocabulary
- walk with: To accompany someone while walking.
- in pursuit: Following or chasing someone or something, typically to catch them.
- pass by: To go past someone or something.
- jump out: To suddenly appear or move forward, often to surprise someone.
- by now: At the present time or already; before the present.
- sense of orientation: The ability to know where you are in relation to your surroundings.
- hit it off: To get on well on first meeting someone
- hang out: To spend time with your friends
- the following: Next in order or sequence.
- as well as: Also; in addition to
- on to: Toward something; forward
- to do with: To be about something; concern
- no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
- on the other side of: Located across something from a given point.
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- permanent: Lasting forever; not temporary or changing
- realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
- severe: Very bad; harsh
- sensation: (Person) attracting the interest of many people
- comprehension: Act of understanding, e.g. a reading text
- ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
- spontaneous: Happening on its own, without anyone helping it
- sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
- exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
- unconscious: Not aware of what is going on around you
- chaotic: Utterly confused
- relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- concern: To be about a particular topic
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- inspire: To give someone an idea to do or make something
- pursuit: Act of following someone to catch them
- furious: Extremely angry
- disguise: Change in appearance so you will not be noticed
- consciousness: Process by which thoughts, ideas are processed
- affection: Feeling of liking someone or something
- explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
- direction: When someone tells people what to do
- fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
- fuzzy: Covered with fur or short hair
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
- surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
- respond: To answer something or someone
- intersection: Place where two things cross
- appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
- moment: Very short or brief period of time
- visceral: From deep within you; caused by strong instincts
- escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
- spend: To use money to pay for something
- smack: To slap or hit, e.g. with a resounding noise
- continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
- benign: (Of cancer) not harmful or too serious
- accident: Sudden unplanned event causing damage, injury etc.
- severity: Degree of seriousness of an event or situation
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- injury: Physical or emotional harm or damage
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
- conclude: To finish or cause to finish; end
- scalp: Part of the human head covered by hair
- malignant: (Of cancer) dangerous or deadly; spreading
- return: To hit something back to the other player or team
- knock: Bad experience that reduces a person's confidence
- bush: A wooden plant that is smaller than a tree
- inform: To give information or facts about something
- perpendicular: Being at right angles to a given line or plane
- liberation: Act of setting someone or something free
- outrun: To run faster than
- tingle: Feeling as if small needles are in your skin
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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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