Vocabulary
- escape from reality: To avoid dealing with unpleasant or boring aspects of life.
- look up to: To respect or admire someone
- carry on: To engage in an activity, e.g. a conversation
- got to: To arrive at some place
- put aside: To save money regularly.
- my eye: Used to express disbelief or skepticism.
- matter: To be of great importance; to count
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
- leave: To go away from; depart
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- put: To move or place a thing in a particular position
- love: Person's name
- escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- spare: To make (money or time) available for
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
- wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
- begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
- sympathy: Feeling for other people when they are in trouble
- face: To cover a surface with something like paint
- body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
- fantasy: Something imagined and very different from reality
- spit: To forcefully blow saliva out from your mouth
- truth: Real facts about something
- frightening: To make someone afraid or nervous
- spine: Line of bones that runs down your back
- ache: To want something very badly
- baby: A very young child, who cannot yet speak
- outta: Slang written form of ‘Out of’
- lightning: Flashes of light in the sky caused by a storm
- stone: Hard, solid piece of rock
- devil: A spirit said to be evil
- gun: To suddenly make an engine run faster
- landslide: Slide of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
- thunderbolt: Discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- mama: A mother
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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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