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audacity

DEFINITION: (noun) Fearless daring; intrepidity.

USAGE: Skill, coolness, audacity, and cunning he possessed in a superior degree, and it must be a cunning whale to escape the stroke of his harpoon.

SYNONYMS: audaciousness, temerity.

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