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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
Weak match
Example Sentences
Magistrates were shown images of the "horrific injury" with the bone, tendons and nerves of the child's arm visible under a flap of skin.
But, he says, an email from the boss during recording helped to settle his nerves.
Pippa has been left with life-affecting pain due to the cyst's impact on her organs, as well as nerve damage in her leg, which she now has to treat daily.
Leclerc increased McLaren's nerves with a stunning first lap, in which he gained a remarkable 11 places, including passing five cars in one go approaching the chicane at Turns Six and Seven.
"Mostly musculoskeletal, but I have widespread nerve damage," she says.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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