Vocabulary
- of a sudden: Quickly and unexpectedly; suddenly.
- get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
- grab: To take and hold something quickly
- gorgeous: Extremely attractive; richly beautiful
- realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
- familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
- freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
- intestine: Long tube in the body for digesting food
- issue: To make something available to be used or sold
- wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
- strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
- drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
- wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
- leave: To go away from; depart
- hell: Any place of pain and suffering
- single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
- pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
- hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
- kind: In a caring and helpful manner
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- sudden: Happening or done quickly or unexpectedly
- head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
- person: Man, woman or child
- pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
- turn: To become (a particular age)
- remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
- tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
- loud: Being very bright with colors, clothes etc.
- gravy: Brown sauce made from meat juices when cooking
- start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
- fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
- cleanse: To remove impurities or pollutants from something
- hammer: To bring severe damage, harm, or blame upon
- aura: Distinctive feeling or mood coming from a person
- neck: Part of the body joining the head and the body
- lesbian: Homosexual woman
- wedding: To combine and join two things together as one
- survivor: Person, thing that continues to live or exist
- carol: Traditional song sung at Christmas
- potato: Vegetable used e.g. to make fries
- cookie: A flat, round sweet baked food
- sweetie: Person loved by someone; boyfriend, girlfriend
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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
A2 Elementary
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