Vocabulary
- dying to: Extremely eager or anxious to do or have something.
- like a man: To act bravely or responsibly.
- crocodile tears: Insincere expressions of sorrow; false grief.
- spot: A certain place or area
- chill: State of being a little cold
- giant: Tall, large, and powerful human-like creatures
- pyramid: Four-sided structure with sides meeting at the top
- leave: To go away from; depart
- fairy: Small imaginary being that can do magic
- stripe: Strip of alternating color in straight lines
- screen: To hide or block something from being seen
- marble: A hard type of stone, often used in monuments
- front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
- great: Very good; better than before
- pair: Two of the same thing, e.g. socks
- octopus: Sea creature with eight arms or tentacles
- bull: Large male animal such as a cow or elephant
- fin: Flat, thin body parts of a fish that help it swim
- fan: To blow air upon a fire to make it stronger
- purple: Being a color that is a mixture of red and blue
- ray: Person's name
- dolphin: Sea animal like a big fish that breathes air
- table: Diagram that shows data in rows and columns
- school: Large group of fish that swim together
- shark: Person who lends money at unfair rates of interest
- white: Person's name
- turtle: Animal that lives in water and has a hard shell
- titan: Person gigantic or great in size or power
- eye: The part of the body that you see with
- eagle: Very large, strong bird that hunts small animals
- big: Popular
- sea: Very large group of people, similar-looking things
- orange: Being a color that is a mixture of red and yellow
- swim: To move through water by moving parts of the body
- pink: Color made by mixing red and white
- schooling: To teach or train someone to know or do something
- barracuda: Sea fish with strong teeth
- yellow: Color of lemons or the sun
- stingray: Large venomous ray with large barbed spines
- breather: Short rest after activity
- triggerfish: Any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
- butterflyfish: Type of fish that has wing-like fins
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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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