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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
The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells.
Key suspects believed to be involved in the Salisbury nerve agent poisoning took part in a revealing Russian TV interview, an inquiry has been told.
"The government must hold its nerve and use the meeting to signal support for a policy that is evidently working," she said.
He has an 0.47 ERA in four career World Series appearances and the steely nerve to take the mound on one day’s rest for the last three outs of this fall’s clinching Game 5.
When the electrical signal reaches the end of one nerve cell it is converted into a biochemical signal, in the form of calcium.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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