Vocabulary
- wake up: To stop sleeping
- hang on: To wait for the person you phoned to answer
- have to: Must do
- check out
- perspective: Artistic method of creating a sense of distance
- episode: One separate event in a series of events
- associate: Partner in professional work, e.g. in law
- sacrifice: Person/animal killed in a sacrifice (to a god)
- previous: Existing or happening before the present time
- script: Written text of a book, play, film, or speech
- harsh: Rough; tough; hard to experience or accept
- reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
- dramatically: In a sudden or extreme manner
- dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
- eternal: Endless; constant; never ending
- planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
- slam: To criticize sharply
- release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
- thrill: Thing/event causing sudden excitement or pleasure
- rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
- hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
- shatter: To break into small pieces
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
- click: To work well with someone or something
- scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
- act: To behave in a certain way
- catch: Amount of something that has been caught
- support: To give assistance or advice to someone
- order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
- breath: Air you take in and out of your body
- bring: To take or go with someone to a place
- energy: Physical or mental strength
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- melt: To disappear or to go away
- afraid: Worried that something bad will happen; scared
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- shut: To stop being open for business
- wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
- bright: Cheerful and happy (manner)
- frozen: Hard, solid because it is below zero degrees
- laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
- groan: To make a deep sound from despair, pain etc.
- whistle: Device making a high sharp sound when blown
- giggle: To laugh in a childish or silly way
- evil: Act considered morally bad
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
- belong: To be a welcomed as a new member of a group
- suffice: To be enough to do something
- cheer: Feeling of happiness or optimism
- rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
- choir: Group of people who sing together e.g. in church
- rumble: Low, heavy continuous sound or series of sounds
- chirp: To make a sharp sound like an insect, bird
- bleep: Short sound made by an electronic instrument
- woo: (Of a man) to try to get a woman to marry him
- pitiful: Inspiring mixed contempt and pity
- hum: To make a constant low sound
- gotcha: Shortened form of 'got you'
- jingle: Light ringing sound like metal things being shaken
- rotational: Concerning rotation
- crackle: To make sharp repeated noises, like a fire burning
- thump: Sound produced by a heavy blow; the blow
- poof: A footstool to rest your feet on
- whoosh: Sound made when something moves quickly past you
- snowman: Figure of a person made of packed snow
- antichrist: Enemy of Christ (and Christians)
- ow: Sound people make when they are hurt
- ohh: Expression showing surprise
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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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