Vocabulary
- shoot up: To increase rapidly and suddenly.
- blow up: To suddenly become angry
- beat up: To hurt someone badly by hitting and punching
- real bad: Very bad; extremely unfavorable or unpleasant.
- stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
- flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
- booze: Alcohol; alcoholic drink
- fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
- distract: To draw someone's attention away from something
- freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
- cruel: Hurtful; acting to hurt others intentionally
- blow: To move something using air
- beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
- curve: Smooth rounded line that is not straight
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- pot: Container designed to hold or store something
- space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
- grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
- wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
- lord: (Name used to refer to god in some religions)
- frank: Member of the ancient Germanic peoples
- shoot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
- physique: The shape and size of a human body
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- boob: Breast (vulgar)
- delirious: Talking in a confused anxious way due to fever
- dead: Not alive
- dark: Of a color that is not light
- smell: To have a particular odor
- bat: Small flying mouse-like animal with wings
- good: Proper, appropriate or right
- man: Humans in general, including male and female
- call: A order or request for action
- face: To cover a surface with something like paint
- mastermind: To supervise a complex undertaking, crime etc.
- smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
- hunter: Someone who hunts animals to kill them
- jew: One of a people whose religion is Judaism
- joker: Someone who likes to make people laugh
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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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