Vocabulary
- come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
- from now on: Starting at this moment and continuing indefinitely into the future.
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
- on the phone: Talking on the telephone.
- check out
- sensation: (Person) attracting the interest of many people
- strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
- precise: (Of language details etc.) Very accurate and exact
- clue: Information that helps explain something; hint
- perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
- complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
- performance: Act of doing something
- beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
- analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
- leave: To go away from; depart
- appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
- fold: To bend one part of something against another
- wound: To rotate a part of say a watch to make it work
- intensive: Needing great effort for a short period of time
- count: To add things together to find the total number
- drown: To kill something by putting it under water
- pure: Not mixed with anything else
- soul: Central or basic part of something
- mortal: Destined to die; causing death
- turn: To become (a particular age)
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- rule: Something that is normal and usually happens
- deep: Complex and important
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- dictionary: Book with the spellings and meanings of many words
- rap: To hit sharply or repeatedly with something
- guy: Man; boy; any person
- grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
- check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
- 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
- heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
- heaven: Place or feeling of great happiness
- raft: Pieces of wood tied together as a kind of boat
- irreversible: Not able to be reversed/put back to previous state
- album: Book with a collection of photographs or pictures
- pro: Reason given in support of something
- poetic: Imaginative, descriptive and often emotional
- hole: An empty space, as in the ground, in a sock etc.
- death: When someone dies; the end of life
- peace: Calm and quiet state
- singe: To burn lightly, often to remove hair
- turnaround: Unloading/loading/servicing plane for return trip
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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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