Vocabulary
- awkward: Lacking smooth movement
- vulnerable: Being open to attack or damage
- potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
- properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- associate: Partner in professional work, e.g. in law
- tend: To move or act in a certain manner
- character: Person in a story, movie or play
- psychological: Concerning the study of the mind
- necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
- variety: Particular type of thing or person
- fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
- fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
- awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
- emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
- imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
- relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
- sarcastic: Being rude and critical
- absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
- keen: Being eager or excited for something to happen
- abuse: To mistreat or be cruel towards someone
- clever: Funny in a way that shows intelligence
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- draw: To attract attention to someone or something
- primitive: Lacking a written language and advanced technology
- settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
- havoc: Situation with destruction, damage and confusion
- deviate: To do something unusual or different; depart from
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- tease: To purposefully bother an animal
- strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
- unconsciously: Without thinking; not deliberately
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- investigation: Search for information about something
- humiliating: Causing you to feel a loss of self-respect
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- control: A device designed to operate a machine
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- tenderness: Pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
- humiliate: To cause to lose pride, self-respect, or dignity
- wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- cuddly: That makes you want to bug them; plump or friendly
- find: To become aware of something that is happening
- familiarity: Manner of talking or behaving
- punitive: Intended to punish; severe; harsh
- liberate: To free someone or something that was captured
- childhood: The time when you are a child
- firsthand: Received directly from a source
- uncomfortable: Not being relaxed; worried about something
- unfamiliar: Unusual; strange or unknown
- weirdly: In an odd or strange way
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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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