Vocabulary
- opening up: Revealing one's thoughts and feelings; becoming more communicative.
- move on: To decide to change or go to a different place
- cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- engage: To start to fight with an enemy
- devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- potentially: That could happen or become reality
- disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
- fluid: A material that can easily flow, e.g. water
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- affect: To cause a change in something else
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
- explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
- raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
- compare: To consider how similar and different things are
- tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- replace: To use instead of something else
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- behave: To act correctly
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- scan: To look inside of the body with a special machine
- think: To have an idea about something without certainty
- human: A person; a man, woman or child
- calculation: Process or result of using mathematics
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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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