Vocabulary
- fight it out: Settle a dispute by fighting until there is a clear winner.
- have to: Must do
- out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
- affection: Feeling of liking someone or something
- emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
- stir: To arouse (attention or interest)
- object: Something you can see or touch, but is not alive
- leave: To go away from; depart
- accidentally: Unexpectedly; by mistake
- colony: Group (bees, etc.) that live in the same place
- dormant: Temporarily not active/growing
- scar: Long lasting emotional pain from a bad experience
- control: A device designed to operate a machine
- mate: A friend who you work, live, or go to school with
- chance: The way something happens without planning
- litter: All the baby animals born at once from one mother
- frenzy: State of uncontrollable, often crazy, behavior
- battle: Military fight between armies
- casualty: Emergency area in a hospital for treating injuries
- patrol: Person or group who checks an area is safe
- attack: To try to destroy, beat, or injure
- weight: How heavy something is
- grapple: To engage in close hand-to-hand combat
- season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- unsuspecting: Not feeling doubts or suspicions
- fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
- impatient: Not wanting to wait; getting angry over problems
- warrior: Courageous or skilled fighter in a battle or war
- earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
- powerful: Having control or influence over
- female: Person of the sex that gives birth to babies
- wing: Part of an animal's body that is used for flying
- ball: Large dance where people dress formally
- face: To cover a surface with something like paint
- arrive: To reach the place you are traveling to
- early: Coming/happening before others in a time sequence
- male: Characteristic of boys or men
- wait: To delay or not do something until later
- year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
- join: To bring something close to another, to become one
- bake: To cook food (bread, cakes) in an oven
- outback: Wild uninhabited parts in the center of Australia
- white: Person's name
- brawl: Noisy quarrel/fight among a group, e.g. in public
- bee: Gathering to perform activities and tasks together
- dangerously: In a dangerous way; so that someone could be hurt
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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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Nature's Most Violent Mating Ritual | Natural Born Rebels | BBC Earth
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Goro Yoshida posted on 2026/03/10Get ready for a wild ride as we dive into the intense mating rituals of Dawson's burrowing bees in the Australian outback! You'll be amazed by the male combat and mass emergence, and you'll pick up some fantastic advanced vocabulary along the way.
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