Vocabulary
- in the bedroom: Located or happening inside the bedroom.
- delight in: To take great pleasure in something.
- deal with
- in flight: Act of flying
- hit upon: To discover an idea, etc. by chance
- rather than: More exactly; more correctly
- go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
- opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
- encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
- ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
- psychological: Concerning the study of the mind
- sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
- fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
- straightforward: Easy to do or understand; not complicated
- psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
- method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
- exist: To be present, alive or real
- victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
- cruel: Hurtful; acting to hurt others intentionally
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
- endure: To last for a long time; continue to exist
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
- cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
- survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
- reflection: Sign or indication of a state or condition
- option: A choice
- deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
- mind: To be bothered or upset by something
- strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
- adaptation: Music, movie or play, changed to a new form
- treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
- ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
- naked: Not wearing any clothes; without covering
- receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
- unconsciously: Without thinking; not deliberately
- satisfaction: Happy feeling because of something that you did
- commonly: Typically, normally; not unusually
- delight: Strong feeling of great pleasure
- bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
- inflict: To make someone endure (something bad)
- sorrow: Deep sadness caused by a loss
- hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
- pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
- opt: To choose one thing rather than other choices
- label: A (luxury) brand owned by a company
- operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
- tenderness: Pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
- necessity: Something that you must have or do
- akin: Similar to; like; almost the same as
- active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
- mourn: To feel or show extreme sadness
- perpetrator: Someone who commits a crime
- ingenious: Very good at making things or solving problems
- liberate: To free someone or something that was captured
- cruelty: Intention to hurt others or be mean to them
- dungeon: Dark underground room in a castle used as a prison
- persecute: To ill-treat, oppress or harass, as for religion
- annihilate: To completely destroy, or get rid of, by force
- intolerable: Unbearable; so that you cannot suffer any more
- roundabout: Round junction for several roads; traffic island
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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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