Vocabulary
- bust out: To escape from a place, especially prison.
- pick through: Search carefully among a group or collection.
- of course: Sure ; Certainly
- on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
- back then: At that time in the past.
- at home: In one's own residence or country.
- due to: Because of; owing to
- mental: Concerning the mind
- depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
- desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
- insomnia: Inability to sleep for many nights
- severe: Very bad; harsh
- treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
- cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
- accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
- intellectual: connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a logical way and understand things
- commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
- comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
- dementia: Illness characterized by loss of memory
- function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- cue: Word or action in a play to tell an actor to speak
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- neural: About the nerves or nervous system
- drill: A machine that makes holes with a metal bit
- behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
- perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
- result: Something produced through tests or experiments
- illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
- responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
- curse: To use offensive language when angry; swear
- subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
- contain: To keep something from spreading
- surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
- bust: To arrest people involved in crime
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- click: To work well with someone or something
- abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
- infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
- reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
- patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
- leave: To go away from; depart
- skull: Structure of bones forming the face and head
- noggin: A human head
- aggression: Use of energy and determination to achieve a goal
- invasive: Entering the body, etc. in a destructive way
- analysis: Careful study to better understand something
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- procedure: A medical operation
- cerebral: Having or concerning ideas rather than emotions
- horror: Feeling of great shock or fear; thing causing it
- modify: To make minor change to something
- impairment: Damage leading to lower strength or quality
- cognition: Recognition involved in thought processing
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- legal: Concerning the law; allowed by law
- gruesome: Showing horrible scenes, e.g. showing blood
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- abnormal: Not normal, not typical, not usual, not regular
- voluntary: Done or given by their own will and not forced
- apathy: Feeling of indifference; not caring about anything
- think: To have an idea about something without certainty
- epilepsy: Medical condition involving fits or seizures
- insert: To put something into a certain place or spot
- lobe: Round part in body, e.g. some parts of brain
- archaic: Old and no longer relevant or applicable
- frontal: Belonging to the forward part
- depress: To make someone feel sad or miserable
- psychopathy: State of having emotional or behavioral problems
- apprehension: Dread or fear of a bad outcome
- socket: Area into which (e.g. a bone) will fit
- homosexuality: Sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
- depressive: Suffering a psychological lack of happiness
- overuse: Use of an object too often or too extensively
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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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