Vocabulary
- quick question: A brief and simple inquiry.
- breaks down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
- get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
- out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
- out there: In or to a place that is far away
- regardless of
- think about: To consider something carefully.
- wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
- study: To focus on learning something usually at school
- people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
- go: To attend or be at a place
- to: Toward a point, person, place or thing
- nice: Being attractive or of high quality or value
- question: To ask for or try to get information
- smoking: The act of enjoying cigarettes, pipes, cigars, etc.
- age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
- draw: To attract attention to someone or something
- close: Almost; near
- quick: Using very little time; moving far in little time
- girl: A female child; a young woman
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- small: Little in size; not big
- storm: To act violently or angrily
- fashion: Style of dress or activity popular at some time
- police: People, often in uniforms, who solve crimes
- rock: To be greatly upset by something, e.g. a death
- lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
- break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
- comfortable: Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
- size: How big or small a thing is
- add: To include as well
- large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
- happen: To take place or occur
- idea: Belief, thought, suggestion, opinion or plan
- high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- breast: Fleshy part of a woman's body for feeding babies
- tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
- benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
- pregnancy: When a woman carries her unborn baby inside her
- convenient: Allowing you to do something with less trouble
- unnecessary: Being more than needed or not needed
- weigh: To balance things against each other
- connect: To associate a thing with something else
- support: To give assistance or advice to someone
- annoying: To make someone angry
- scientist: Person who is trained in a science
- chest: Strong, lidded container for storing things
- confuse: To make something unclear or hard to understand
- publish: To prepare and make available a book magazine etc.
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- bra: Woman’s undergarment worn to support the breasts
- medically: As regards medical matters
- bounce: A person's energy or confidence
- determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
- expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
- prevention: Act of stopping something bad from happening
- irrelevant: Not important; not related to the topic
- researcher: Someone who works to find new facts and ideas
- substitute: To perform the tasks instead of someone else
- genetics: Studies of how things develop between generations
- representative: Typical example of a particular category
- beneficial: Giving an advantage, having a helpful effect
- sample: To try (e.g. food, drink), to see if you like it
- pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
- cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
- inevitable: That must happen; certain to happen
- booby: Ignorant or foolish person
- slingshot: Loop of leather used as a weapon to throw stones
- snug: Warm and comfortable; cozy, as in a small room
- boob: Breast (vulgar)
- shit: A coarse term for defecation
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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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