Vocabulary
- expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
- delicate: Easily broken or damaged
- fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
- cruel: Hurtful; acting to hurt others intentionally
- bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
- escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
- reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- generous: Giving or ready to give freely
- violent: Done with force; likely to produce physical damage
- stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
- soul: Central or basic part of something
- wicked: Morally bad; evil
- frightening: To make someone afraid or nervous
- genius: Person displaying a high level of intelligence
- place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
- disturb: To cause someone anxiety or fear
- prefer: To like something better than something else
- sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
- hook: Bent tool used to catch fish or to hang things on
- surround: To be all the way around something
- wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
- great: Very good; better than before
- tan: A light brown color
- collect: By asking the receiver of a call to pay for it
- want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
- pardon: To forgive for some error or fault; let off
- design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
- blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
- disgust: Strong feeling of dislike for something
- story: One of many floors or levels in a building
- show: To be easily seen or displayed
- time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
- barbaric: Uncivilized; cruel and wild
- knit: To join or be joined closely together
- horrifying: Scary; very shocking
- shine: To point a light in a certain direction
- taint: To hurt or damage the good condition of something
- tower: Tall, narrow building
- lad: A boy or young man; any man
- differ: To be different; to be not like others
- sailing: To travel across water in a boat or a ship
- sew: To make something using a needle and thread
- butter: Yellow substance made of cream, spread on bread
- peaceful: In a calm and quiet state
- vile: Being very bad or unpleasant; disgusting
- sweetheart: Person loved by another person
- mime: Art of telling a story without speaking
- stag: Adult male deer
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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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