n. a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare"

n. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart"

adj. radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"

adj. disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"

n. needed encouragement; "the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"

n. aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

n. a North American Indian warrior

n. people who are brave; "the home of the free and the brave"

n. fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"

n. the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"

n. strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage

n. sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

n. a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

n. the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor"

adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

adj. involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"

adj. fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"

adj. improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"

adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

adj. possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory"

adj. presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff"

adj. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"

adj. done by hand without mechanical aids or devices; "a freehand drawing"

adj. original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"

adj. containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"

adj. being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original"

adj. (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"

adj. not derivative or imitative; "a natural underivative poet"

adj. involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"

adj. flamboyantly adventurous

n. fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities