Vocabulary
- suffer from: To experience pain or distress; to be badly affected by.
- know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
- off of: From a position on something; down from.
- other than: Except for; apart from.
- as one: Acting or moving together at the same time.
- also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
- courtesy of: Provided or permitted by (someone or something).
- with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
- cope with: To deal successfully with a difficult situation.
- slow down: To reduce the speed
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- process: To organize and use data in a computer
- decent: Being fairly good; acceptable
- content: Being happy or satisfied
- nasty: Very bad, unpleasant, or offensive
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- typically: In a normal or usual way
- completely: In every way or as much as possible
- plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
- binge: To eat or drink too much at one time
- approximately: Around; nearly; almost; about (a number)
- amount: Quantity of something
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- instant: (Food) requiring very little preparation
- mutation: Change that changes genetic structure
- prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
- fluid: A material that can easily flow, e.g. water
- nausea: Feeling of sickness so that you feel like vomiting
- cope: To deal with something in spite of difficulties
- concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- condition: To improve something to make it better
- issue: To make something available to be used or sold
- cue: Word or action in a play to tell an actor to speak
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
- instantly: In a manner without delay; immediately
- genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
- pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
- rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
- cure: Something that solves a problem or makes it better
- normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
- enzyme: A protein made by cells
- flush: Feeling that comes suddenly
- deficiency: Lack of something that is necessary
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- worldwide: Spanning or extending throughout the entire world
- liver: Organ from animals served as food
- glow: Pink color in the face, e.g. from exercise/emotion
- facial: Treatment to improve condition of the skin of face
- fill: To make something full
- physician: A medical doctor
- pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
- absorption: Process of being absorbed e.g. liquid, attention
- inherit: To have a quality or feature passed down at birth
- wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
- carry: To have a child, be pregnant
- moderately: A reasonable or fair degree
- swift: Quick
- alcoholic: Containing alcohol; that can make you drunk
- deficient: Lacking something necessary
- quench: To put out a fire
- rum: Alcoholic liquor made from molasses/sugar cane
- thirst: Powerful desire or need for e.g. knowledge
- heighten: To increase the degree or intensity of something
- oxidize: To be exposed to oxygen, as when food goes brown
- dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information
- drunkenness: Temporary state from drinking too much alcohol
- cheesecake: A cake made with cream cheese
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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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