Vocabulary
- seek help: To ask for or try to get assistance or support.
- clear up: To tidy things away, e.g. dirty dishes after meal
- over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
- as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
- ask for help: To request assistance or support.
- at that time: During a specific point in the past.
- in disguise: Having altered one's appearance to conceal one's identity.
- turned out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
- blessing in disguise: Something that seems bad or unlucky at first, but results in something good.
- in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
- with time: As time passes; eventually.
- in truth: In fact; actually; really
- have at: To attack someone or something.
- such as: For example; like
- at least: As a minimum
- at a time: Separately; one by one
- in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
- coping mechanism: A psychological strategy used to manage stress or emotional distress.
- see past: To overlook flaws or errors and accept.
- check out
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
- immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
- trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
- trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
- scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- potentially: That could happen or become reality
- disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
- traumatic: Causing upsetting emotional effects over time
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
- compound: Series of buildings that are walled or fenced off
- awareness: Having knowledge of something
- cope: To deal with something in spite of difficulties
- affect: To cause a change in something else
- condition: To improve something to make it better
- wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
- disguise: Change in appearance so you will not be noticed
- obsessive: Characterized by or constituting an obsession
- compulsive: Having difficulty to stop yourself doing something
- define: To explain the meaning of words
- seek: To ask someone for help
- suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
- subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
- lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
- throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
- shame: Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
- solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
- regularly: At the usual time each day, week, or month
- wound: To rotate a part of say a watch to make it work
- hazard: Something that is dangerous and causes problems
- square: Shape with 4 equal length sides and 4 equal angles
- diagnose: To determine the cause of an illness or problem
- simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
- support: To give assistance or advice to someone
- discriminate: To distinguish the differences between things
- person: Man, woman or child
- attend: To take care of someone in need
- hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
- hoard: Large amount of hidden (valuable) items
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- hold: To agree to keep something for someone
- understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- magnify: To increase the importance or seriousness of
- confine: To hold or imprison someone in a place
- negatively: In a harmful, unwanted or unhelpful manner
- nest: Home, e.g. of twigs, made by a bird, insect etc.
- bipolar: (Disorder) exhibiting extremes of behavior
- cream: Pale color that is yellowish white
- cot: Bed with high sides for a baby
- eviction: Action by a landlord compelling a tenant to leave
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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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