Vocabulary
- care for: To want or desire a thing
- out there: In or to a place that is far away
- come from: To have as your native country or city
- throw away: To fail to take advantage of a good chance
- next to: Being located along side another
- to death: Extremely; to a great degree
- go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
- come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- have to: Must do
- take it away: To remove something.
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
- sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
- detrimental: Harmful
- absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
- state: Region within a country, with its own government
- behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
- reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
- throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
- hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
- responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
- cherish: To care a lot about or love someone or something
- plastic: Stiff but usually flexible man-made material
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- important: Having power or authority
- starve: To (cause to) be hungry or go without food
- block: Solid piece of material used for building
- information: Collection of facts and details about something
- chain: To feel to be bound or tied to
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- piece: A counter in a board game
- connect: To associate a thing with something else
- language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
- plate: Flat dish used for eating or serving food
- nonsense: Foolish or untrue statements or ideas
- protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
- float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
- pollution: Dangerous substances released into an environment
- translate: To change something into a different state
- trash: Garbage or anything that is worthless
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- link: Any one of the rings that are part of a chain
- deeply: To a significant degree
- death: When someone dies; the end of life
- impossible: (Child, etc.) very annoying
- economically: In an efficient manner
- turtle: Animal that lives in water and has a hard shell
- takeout: Food bought at a restaurant but eaten elsewhere
- gov: Shortened form of 'government'; internet address
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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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