Vocabulary
- stay in: To remain inside one's home.
- at school: Present and attending school.
- in prison: Confined in a prison; incarcerated.
- in particular: Specifically; especially.
- matter: To be of great importance; to count
- sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
- opinion: Court judge's statement why a decision was made
- comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
- escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
- strive: To work hard/make effort to achieve something
- competition: Fighting against others to win something
- capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
- state: Region within a country, with its own government
- absurd: So foolish as to be difficult to believe
- society: A group who meet to share values or interests
- observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
- result: Something produced through tests or experiments
- grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
- swap: To exchange goods without spending money; trade
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- fellow: Man or a boy
- anonymous: Unknown; with no name revealed
- actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
- interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
- internal: Being or happening in the body
- prison: Place the court puts criminals as punishment; jail
- narrow: Not wide; short from one side to the other
- whatsoever: Used to add emphasis to an idea being expressed
- order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
- remind: To cause someone to remember what they forgot
- creative: Having the ability to make something new
- public: Owned by the government
- detach: To send away a military unit on a special mission
- chance: The way something happens without planning
- exile: State of being forced to leave your country
- grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
- unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
- liberate: To free someone or something that was captured
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- indifferent: Neutral; not taking sides
- crucially: To an extremely important or necessary degree
- hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
- stay: To keep trying without giving up
- provincial: People living out of a main city
- judgmental: Depending on judgment
- inwardly: Toward the inside or center; within yourself
- unsigned: Lacking a signature
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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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