Audacious vs Yearn - What's the difference?
audacious | yearn |
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/]
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Impudent.
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
* All I yearn for is a simple life.
To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
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To pain; to grieve; to vex.
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As an adjective audacious
is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.As a verb yearn is
to long, have a strong desire (for something).audacious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Synonyms
* (willing to take bold risks) bold, daring, temeritous, temerariousAntonyms
* (willing to take bold risks) shy, cautious, prudentDerived terms
() * audaciously * audaciousnessExternal links
* * *yearn
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
- It would yearn your heart to see it.
- It yearns me not if men my garments wear.