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audacious | cower |

As an adjective audacious

is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.

As a verb cower is

{{cx|intransitive|lang=en}} To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.

audacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
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  • Impudent.

    • Synonyms

    * (willing to take bold risks) bold, daring, temeritous, temerarious

    Antonyms

    * (willing to take bold risks) shy, cautious, prudent

    Derived terms

    () * audaciously * audaciousness

    Related terms

    () * audacity * outdaciousness

    External links

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    cower

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) kuren or from Scandinavian ((etyl) . Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
    • He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
  • * Dryden
    • Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
  • * Goldsmith
    • Like falcons, cowering on the nest.
    See also
    * coward * cowardice

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cherish with care.
    • (Webster 1913)