Vocabulary
- go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
- out there: In or to a place that is far away
- until the wheels fall off: For as long as possible, until something breaks down.
- get along: To have a friendly relationship with someone; like
- hot streak: A period of repeated success or good luck.
- ever since: Continuously from a past time until now.
- got to: To arrive at some place
- at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
- shut up: To close something, e.g. a shop
- along with: In addition to; together with.
- in the house: Located inside a building used as a dwelling.
- in town: Present or available in the local area or city.
- ride on: To continue as planned, despite difficulties.
- back to work: Returning to one's job or professional duties after a period of absence.
- get back to: To get in contact with someone again
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
- fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
- dude: Form of address for a man
- suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
- corporate: Concerning (usually large) companies
- mature: Behaving like an adult
- vicinity: Surrounding or nearby region; proximity
- interrupt: To stop something from happening for a while
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- heck: Expressing surprise, or frustration
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- hell: Any place of pain and suffering
- streak: An continuous amount of something, e.g. luck
- prefer: To like something better than something else
- hospitality: Welcoming treatment of visitors or guests
- own: To have something as your property
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- hire: To give a job to someone in exchange for pay
- great: Very good; better than before
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- smooth: Moving without stops and starts
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- brave: (Old-fashioned) A native American warrior
- dessert: Sweet food usually eaten at the end of a meal
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- degenerate: To become something worse or inferior; deteriorate
- truth: Real facts about something
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- rocket: Powerful engine that releases hot gases
- ass: (Impolite) part of the human body that you sit on
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
- guy: Man; boy; any person
- discount: To consider to be not important or not true
- group: Two or more musicians who play music together
- fool: An idiot; someone who does something stupid
- datum: Item of factual information
- moron: Very stupid, foolish person
- protection: Being kept from harm
- pilgrim: Traveler going to a place with religious meaning
- kid: Child or young person
- wine: Dark red color
- soldier: Person working in an army to fight
- rat: Long-tailed rodent similar to/bigger than a mouse
- turkey: Edible bird resembling a large chicken
- boo: To shout out 'boo', to express your disapproval
- tequila: Mexican liquor made from juices of an agave plant
- mall: Large public area often covered with grass
- smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
- belle: Young woman noted for being pretty and graceful
- bicycle: 2-wheeled vehicle ridden by pushing on foot pedals
- amigo: Spanish friend; comrade
- whew: Sound people make when they are relieved
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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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