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nerve
noun as in daring, boldness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- assumption
- assurance
- audacity
- backbone
- brass
- bravery
- brazenness
- cheek
- chutzpah
- coolness
- crust
- effrontery
- endurance
- energy
- face
- fearlessness
- firmness
- force
- gall
- gameness
- guts
- hardihood
- hardiness
- impertinence
- impudence
- insolence
- intrepidity
- mettle
- might
- moxie
- pluck
- presumption
- resolution
- sauce
- spunk
- starch
- steadfastness
- temerity
- vigor
- will
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Online chatter didn’t help and “hit a nerve,” he said.
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Despite his nerves, he movingly recalled waking up to his dad screaming, unsure of what to do after his mum's heart attack.
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When capitalism has lost its revolutionary nerve, like during the Great Depression, the state has brought it back to life.
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In MS, the immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin sheath, a protective layer that insulates nerve fibers.
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These compounds are known to be highly toxic to nerve cells.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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