Vocabulary
- lead to: To result in some action
- wake up: To stop sleeping
- heart pounding: Experiencing a rapid or forceful heartbeat, often due to anxiety, fear, or excitement.
- suffer from: To experience pain or distress; to be badly affected by.
- stay away: To keep a distance from something or someone; to avoid approaching.
- eating healthy: The practice of consuming foods that are beneficial for one's health and well-being.
- switch off
- in reality: Actually; in fact; truly.
- curl up: To lie or sit with your legs bent close to your body.
- for long: For a considerable period of time.
- anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
- specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
- conscious: Aware of what is going on around you
- massive: Very big; large; too big
- multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
- trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
- metabolism: Chemical processes to convert food to energy
- trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
- basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- improve: To make, or become, something better
- disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
- prone: Lying flat with your head facing the ground
- common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- traumatic: Causing upsetting emotional effects over time
- position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
- pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
- neutral: Something with pH value of 7
- prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
- mechanism: Part of a machine that performs a certain function
- condition: To improve something to make it better
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- occur: To come to pass or to happen
- maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- paralysis: Inability to move or feel all or part of the body
- brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
- cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
- huge: Very very large
- digestion: Process of changing eaten food for use in the body
- evolution: Theory that living things change over time
- temporarily: For a limited amount of time
- suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
- rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
- lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
- apparatus: Tools or instruments used for a specific activity
- snore: To make a loud noise while sleeping
- fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
- suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
- spine: Line of bones that runs down your back
- deprive: To deny someone access to or take away something
- activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
- stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
- pillow: Soft cushion for your head on a bed/while sleeping
- rapid: Moving or happening very quickly
- circulation: Movement of blood through the body
- pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
- beneficial: Giving an advantage, having a helpful effect
- pound: The # key on a keyboard
- curl: To form something into a round or curved shape
- elongate: To make something longer; to extend something
- unable: Not being able to do something
- nah: Way of saying 'No'
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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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