Vocabulary
- in sight: Visible; able to be seen.
- crush: Strong attraction to someone
- reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- mean: Average of a set of numbers
- grain: Seeds of plants used for food
- empty: Containing nothing; with no contents
- flame: To glow
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- soul: Central or basic part of something
- pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
- swirl: To make a twisting shape, mark, or pattern
- sketch: Brief account of something without many details
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- sight: To aim (a gun) at something to get your range
- palette: Flat board for mixing paint
- breeze: To act in a confident way; walk, enter confidently
- haze: Dust, smoke, or gas that darkens or clouds the air
- rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
- sanity: Normal or sound powers of mind
- change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
- understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
- blaze: (Of a fire) to burn brightly
- silver: Person's name
- land: Region or country
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- hue: Degree of lightness/darkness/strength of a color
- life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
- thorn: Sharp point on the stem/branches of some plants
- meet: To provide something that is necessary
- virgin: Someone who did not do a thing before; first timer
- paint: To make a picture with colored liquids
- artist: A person skilled and creative in art e.g. painter
- bloody: Covered or spotted with blood on the surface
- amber: Hard, clear yellow dried resin from trees
- violet: Small fragrant plant with usually purplish flowers
- linen: Cloth made from fibers of the flax plant
- starry: Full of stars or celebrities
- darkness: The state or quality of being dark in color
- hung: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
- clothe: To put a certain type of clothing on someone; dress
- ragged: In a wild or neglected state
- snowy: When snow falls; marked by snow falling
- brightly: In a happy manner
- nameless: Being or having an unknown or unnamed source
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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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