Vocabulary
- have to: Must do
- grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
- go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
- triple down: To reinforce one's effort or position, especially under pressure.
- regardless of
- grab at: To try to quickly take or seize something with your hand.
- opening up: Revealing one's thoughts and feelings; becoming more communicative.
- see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
- instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
- at hand: Close by; readily available.
- figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
- at least: As a minimum
- at midnight: At twelve o'clock at night; the middle of the night.
- shit on: To criticize or treat someone unfairly.
- on the internet: Located or available on the internet.
- in school: Attending an educational institution.
- absolutely: Completely; totally; very
- entrepreneur: Businessperson who develops new businesses
- recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
- opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
- empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
- deserve: To be worthy of, e.g. getting praise or attention
- regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
- desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
- practical: Relating to what is sensible, real or useful
- position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
- confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
- plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
- represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
- amount: Quantity of something
- craft: To make by hand and with much skill
- lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
- reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
- inspire: To give someone an idea to do or make something
- diminish: To make something smaller or less important
- minority: Group that is smaller and different from the rest
- actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
- realistic: Looks or appears real; like things really are
- talent: Natural ability of a person to do something well
- tear: Drop of salty water from the eye
- excitement: When people feel very happy and enthusiastic
- ton: Unit of weight; 907 kilograms (US); 1016 (UK)
- era: Period characterized by particular events, people
- moment: Very short or brief period of time
- company: Good feeling from being with someone else
- drawn: To attract attention to someone or something
- alien: Foreigner; a person not from this place
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
- deploy: To put into position (often a military operation)
- business: A company formed for making profit
- explosion: Loud and sudden expression of emotion
- grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
- entrepreneurial: Open to new ideas about starting new businesses
- insanely: In an insane manner
- hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- entitle: To make you eligible to hold a title
- frank: Member of the ancient Germanic peoples
- practicality: State of being useful or realistically possible
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- audacity: Bold and daring behavior
- seed: A person's children; offspring
- entrepreneurship: Starting up of new businesses
- victory: Defeating or beating someone or something
- predicate: To base something on a previous situation
- rant: To talk on and on in an excited or confused way
- triple: Group or set of three
- goose: Large water bird related to a duck
- blueprint: Plans of how buildings will be built
- gal: Another way to say girl
- dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information
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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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