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- make up: To invent or create a story
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- hit with: To strike someone or something using an object.
- in terms of
- back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
- entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
- dedicated: To state a person's name in book, song, in respect
- engage: To start to fight with an enemy
- majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
- vast: Being very large in size or amount
- permanent: Lasting forever; not temporary or changing
- crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
- severe: Very bad; harsh
- epidemic: Disease that spreads quickly affecting many
- develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
- expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
- variety: Particular type of thing or person
- identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
- disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
- ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
- conduct: Your behavior
- reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
- toll: Sound that a big bell makes, when it is rung
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
- suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
- craft: To make by hand and with much skill
- phenomenal: Amazing; remarkable
- congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
- benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
- factor: Something that influences a result
- vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
- immensely: Very much; greatly; a lot
- administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
- blow: To move something using air
- generous: Giving or ready to give freely
- halt: To stop, or cause something, e.g. a car, to stop
- tragic: (Of a play, movie, or book) with a sad ending
- relief: Aid given to people in need as after war/disaster
- haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
- hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
- event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
- humanitarian: Person who tries to help those in a crisis
- exponential: (Of an increase) at a faster and faster rate
- great: Very good; better than before
- step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
- income: Earned money from work, investments or business
- part: Division of a book
- world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
- believe: To think or accept that something is true
- health: (Person, company) being in a good condition; well
- playbook: Notebook with diagrams of the plays of a team
- hope: When you wish something will happen; what you wish
- write: To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
- south: Direction to your right when facing the rising sun
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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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