e word brave has three primary definitions that students may encounter in the texts they read. e underlining commonality of these definitions is courage. Firemen and women are described as brave, as an adjective, as they run into burning buildings because they are courageous. A person who wears a brave, showy purple lipstick to go with a Halloween outfit is also courageous. is use of the word brave is also an adjective. However, the word brave is used as a verb when describing an army that braves its enemies in battle. e army is also considered courageous. Follow-Up • Have you ever felt brave? What were you doing and how did you feel? • How is being showy or making a display different than being heroic? • How has a character in a story you have read been brave? e Spanish Connection Brave is considered a Middle French word that was adapted from the word bravo, meaning gallant in Italian, savage in Spanish, and barbarous in Portuguese. e word brave does not have a Spanish cognate. Word Changes Many dictionaries list brave as a noun, meaning a Native American warrior. It is important to recognize that this label emerged with the descriptions of early explorers and developed as colonization and settlement evolved. Brave is not what Native American warriors self-identified as. With over 500 tribes and many different nations and languages, the term for a warrior was actually very specific to a tribe, nation, or language. It also perpetuates the idea that all tribes had warriors or fought frequently. S4-07 Brave S e t s f o r S t o r i e s S u p e r S y n o n y m ™ www.textproject.org/s4 v.1.0 © 2015 TextProject, Inc. Some rights reserved (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/).
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The word brave has three primary definitions that students may encounter in the texts they read. The underlining commonality of these definitions is courage. Firemen and women are described as brave, as an adjective, as they run into burning buildings because they are courageous. A person who wears a brave, showy purple lipstick to go with a Halloween outfit is also courageous. This use of the word brave is also an adjective. However, the word brave is used as a verb when describing an army that braves its enemies in battle. The army is also considered courageous.
Follow-Up• Have you ever felt brave? What were you doing and how did you feel?
• How is being showy or making a display different than being heroic?
• How has a character in a story you have read been brave?
The Spanish ConnectionBrave is considered a Middle French word that was adapted from the word bravo, meaning gallant in Italian, savage in Spanish, and barbarous in Portuguese. The word brave does not have a Spanish cognate.
Word ChangesMany dictionaries list brave as a noun, meaning a Native American warrior. It is important to recognize that this label emerged with the descriptions of early explorers and developed as colonization and settlement evolved. Brave is not what Native American warriors self-identified as. With over 500 tribes and many different nations and languages, the term for a warrior was actually very specific to a tribe, nation, or language. It also perpetuates the idea that all tribes had warriors or fought frequently.
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COMMON PHRASES• Fortune favors the brave • Be brave
SPANISH CONNECTIONS• to argue / argumentar• to dispute / disputar• to debate / debater• to refute / refutar• to discuss / discutir
IDIOMS• Put on a brave face
Brave as in to face or deal with a challenge (v)
• face• confront
• dare• challenge
• defy • endure
Brave as in possessing courage (adj)• courageous
• valiant• fearless
• bold • gutsy
• dauntless• heroic• gallant
Brave as in making a display (adj)
• showy• colorful
• impressive• flashy
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COMMON PHRASES SPANISH CONNECTIONSIDIOMS
Brave as in to face or deal with a challenge (v)
Brave as in possessing courage (adj)
Brave as in making a display (adj)
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Inflected Endings• braver• bravest• braves• bravely
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