Vocabulary
- turn away: To go in a different direction; not face something
- cope with: To deal successfully with a difficult situation.
- care for: To want or desire a thing
- care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
- spiral out: To decline or deteriorate rapidly and uncontrollably.
- out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
- in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
- cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
- overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
- figure: To appear in a game, play or event
- distraction: Something drawing your attention away from
- trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
- evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
- practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
- improve: To make, or become, something better
- crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
- therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
- effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
- common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
- acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
- treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
- prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
- despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
- distress: State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
- cope: To deal with something in spite of difficulties
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- effectively: In a way that produces the desired result
- generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
- response: Something said/written as an answer to something
- behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
- emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
- simply: In an easy or clear manner
- attention: Taking notice of someone or something
- provide: To make available; to supply for use
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- respond: To answer something or someone
- reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
- prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
- mindfulness: Paying attention to your responsibilities
- scary: Causing fear; frightening
- treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
- spiral: A continuous curve round a central point
- suicide: Act of purposely killing yourself
- manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
- control: A device designed to operate a machine
- isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
- prevention: Act of stopping something bad from happening
- suicidal: Feeling you may kill yourself; depressed
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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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