Vocabulary
- hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- on the deck: Situated on the flat surface or floor of a ship or boat.
- gross: 144 of something; twelve dozen of something
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
- grand: A counter for 1000 of something
- fade: To cause to lose brightness of color
- meet: To provide something that is necessary
- crawl: To move very slowly or cautiously
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- shit: A coarse term for defecation
- hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
- watch: To keep in check, manage, or control something
- zone: Area of space designated for a particular use
- ball: Large dance where people dress formally
- whip: To defeat thoroughly or easily
- tick: To function properly or normally
- stall: Walled area in a barn where a farm animal is kept
- throne: Special elaborate chair on which king/queen sits
- behave: To act correctly
- ceiling: Top part of a room above your head
- pose: To be or exist as (a problem, threat etc.)
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- psycho: Person affected by psychosis; unbalanced person
- bitch: To aggressively complain about something
- bout: A boxing match
- fuck: Vulgar term used as an intensifier
- shock: The passage of an electricity through the body
- provocative: Causing anger/sexual interest, e.g. deliberately
- lock: To become fixed in place and hard to move
- gravy: Brown sauce made from meat juices when cooking
- hot: Angry or excited
- ace: Highest value card in a game of cards
- prince: Person's name
- married: To become the husband or wife of someone
- dealer: Someone who buys things to sell to others
- liable: Open to (attack, etc.)
- mall: Large public area often covered with grass
- Paris: Sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae
- jacket: Light, thin coat worn over a shirt or top
- jordan: An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea
- fore: (In combination) before; in the front part
- chi: Nd letter of the Greek alphabet
- filet: A type of steak
- jay: Bird with a blue and white pattern on the wing
- ye: Old word for 'you' in the plural
- actin: A proteins into which actomyosin can be split
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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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