Vocabulary
- rough edges: Uneven or jagged borders or surfaces.
- in the game: Still involved or active in a competition or situation.
- have to: Must do
- warts and all: Including all faults or imperfections; completely honest.
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- got to: To arrive at some place
- much about: A lot of information or knowledge concerning something.
- for life: For the duration of one's life; permanently.
- back then: At that time in the past.
- come from: To have as your native country or city
- just kind of: Used to express a feeling or state in a vague or hesitant way.
- down with: Suffering from an illness.
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
- to perfection: In a flawless or ideal manner; perfectly.
- new level: A higher or improved stage of achievement or quality.
- in ways: In a manner or by methods that.
- beyond the pale: Outside the bounds of acceptable behavior; outrageous.
- sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
- incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
- trait: A particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behavior
- regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
- legacy: Literature, arts etc. from previous generations
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
- conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
- admire: To feel respect or wonder toward someone
- grasp: Person's control over something
- apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
- rough: Causing or involving violence, force, and harm
- pause: To stop doing for a while before continuing
- profile: To write a short description of a person or group
- immerse: To put something in liquid until it is covered
- layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
- throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
- pale: Light in color; unhealthy looking
- honest: Good, truthful, sincere, or faithful; trustworthy
- document: Official (printed) record that gives information
- treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
- technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
- scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
- operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
- garage: Place for keeping a car
- unfold: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- deaf: Not able to hear; hard of hearing
- popularity: State of being liked or supported by many people
- question: To ask for or try to get information
- person: Man, woman or child
- simplicity: Being easy to understand or use
- tyrant: Cruel unfair ruler who demands complete obedience
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- successful: Having the desired effect or result
- ingenious: Very good at making things or solving problems
- visionary: Thinking about the future in an imaginative way
- tantrum: Uncontrollable fit of temper or anger
- great: Very good; better than before
- cooperate: To work together with, to assist someone
- guy: Man; boy; any person
- incline: To bend the head or body forward
- cover: To record a different version of another song
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
- level: Specific height of something
- yell: A sudden loud cry or shout
- biography: Story of a person's life as told by someone else
- want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
- shortage: A lack of something necessary
- cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
- inventive: Having the ability to think up/create new things
- perfectionist: Person displeased by anything is not perfect
- distortion: Act of changing the shape, details, appearance of
- pancreatic: Do with the long gland, that is behind the stomach
- hippie: Someone rejecting established culture
- crazier: Being more crazy than
- winch: Device using rope/chain to lift/pull heavy things
- stockman: Farmer who breed or raises livestock
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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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