Vocabulary
- look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
- for example: As an illustration or instance.
- come from: To have as your native country or city
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- stay away: To keep a distance from something or someone; to avoid approaching.
- at risk: In danger; likely to be harmed
- have to: Must do
- out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
- literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
- subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
- expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
- native: Someone from or born in a specific country
- vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
- unprecedented: Not having happened before, or to such a degree
- force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
- describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
- environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
- spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
- bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
- wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
- scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
- planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
- risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
- rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
- click: To work well with someone or something
- connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
- major: High-ranking officer in the army
- quiz: A game in which players answer questions on topics
- crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
- foreign: Being of a different place or country
- accidentally: Unexpectedly; by mistake
- destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
- invasive: Entering the body, etc. in a destructive way
- lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
- channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
- important: Having power or authority
- control: A device designed to operate a machine
- learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
- remind: To cause someone to remember what they forgot
- adjective: A word that describes a noun, e.g. happy
- spray: To cover something with a stream of tiny drops
- unpleasant: Causing a bad feeling in people
- damage: Physical harm that is done to something
- fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
- verb: Word that expresses an action or state
- alien: Foreigner; a person not from this place
- repel: To make or force someone or something go away
- include: To make someone, something part of a group
- area: Amount of measured space
- headline: To be the main performer at a show
- cream: Pale color that is yellowish white
- rife: (Of a bad thing) very common; found everywhere
- gambling: Act of betting money on events
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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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