Vocabulary
- as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
- wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
- calm down: To make or become relaxed after being stressed
- let out: To allow a person, animal to leave the room, house
- engage: To start to fight with an enemy
- permanent: Lasting forever; not temporary or changing
- typically: In a normal or usual way
- treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
- amount: Quantity of something
- increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
- tendency: Likelihood to behave in a particular way
- calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
- tolerate: To be able to adjust to changes of various kinds
- sensitive: Taking offense easily; easily upset or hurt
- gradually: Occurring in a slow manner over a period of time
- ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
- contact: Touching or feeling something
- observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
- curb: Anything that restrains or controls
- instinctively: Through intuition, not thought
- expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
- procedure: A medical operation
- scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
- spray: To cover something with a stream of tiny drops
- continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- provoke: To deliberately annoy to make someone aggressive
- natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
- fill: To make something full
- worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
- step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- bite: Amount of food taken into your mouth at one time
- area: Amount of measured space
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- optional: Being possible or available, but not required
- train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
- fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
- lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
- tail: Extended part at the back of an animal's body
- repeat: Action that is done again
- kitten: Young cat
- careful: Trying not to make mistakes; working slowly
- meow: Cry like a cat
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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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