Vocabulary
- mental: Concerning the mind
- overwhelming: To defeat something or someone completely
- properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
- expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
- evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
- tend: To move or act in a certain manner
- therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
- treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
- doubt: Not being sure of something; lack of certainty
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- numb: Unable to feel a body part due to cold or illness
- precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
- rage: Strong or violent anger
- escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
- deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
- vessel: Container, such as a cup, for holding liquids
- suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
- neglect: Act of failing to do something important, required
- therapist: Person skilled in a particular type of therapy
- emphasize: To stress the items that are important
- contact: Touching or feeling something
- release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
- digestion: Process of changing eaten food for use in the body
- gigantic: Extremely large
- account: An advantage
- immensely: Very much; greatly; a lot
- render: To cause to be in a certain state or condition
- stiff: Slang term for a dead body
- contradict: To say the opposite is so; say something different
- dare: To challenge someone to do something that is risky
- foam: Mix of a liquid and air to form a mass of bubbles
- competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
- sensory: Referring to the physical senses
- treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
- instruction: A command for someone formally to do something
- withdraw: To take money out of a bank account
- cult: Small extreme religious group
- sheet: Piece of cloth you put on the bed to sleep on
- formation: Process of creating; making a particular shape
- seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
- integration: Act of bringing things together into a whole
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- emotionally: In a way that shows your feelings
- intuitively: In a manner based on feelings rather than facts
- breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
- retaliation: Revenge for something harmful or wrong
- basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
- sway: Power or influence to control a person or group
- dutch: Concerning the culture and people of Holland
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- legitimacy: Legally allowed act; undisputed credibility
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
- coward: Someone too afraid to do what is right or needed
- karate: A Japanese martial art; weaponless self-defense
- meek: Obedient; doing what others say without arguing
- ingrain: To be deeply attached or fixed in
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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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