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  2. Gacería - Wikipedia

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    In Castilian, atrevido carries the meaning of "daring" or "impudent" as an adjective, and "daredevil" or "smart aleck" as a noun. Gesticulation also plays a large part in giving added meaning to words from Gacería, as one word could potentially have many meanings. "In Gacería eyes speak more than words," one scholar has written.

  3. Boldness - Wikipedia

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    Thunberg's speech "Our house is on fire" in Davos (January 2019). Boldness is the opposite of shyness.To be bold implies a willingness to get things done despite risks. [1]For example, in the context of sociability, a bold person may be willing to risk shame or rejection in social situations, or to bend rules of etiquette or politeness.

  4. American English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...

  5. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    English adjectives form a large open category of words in English which, semantically, tend to denote properties such as size, colour, mood, quality, age, ...

  6. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  7. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    14 Basic adjectives. 15 Light and color. 16 Positive qualities. 17 Construction, fabrication. 18 Self-motion, rest. 19 Object motion. 20 Time. 21 Ideas and rituals ...

  8. Óðr - Wikipedia

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    Óðr again leaves the grieving Freyja in Odur verläßt abermals die trauernde Gattin (1882), Carl Emil Doepler 'The Elder'.. In Norse mythology, Óðr (; Old Norse for the "Divine Madness, frantic, furious, vehement, athger", as a noun "mind, feeling" and also "song, poetry"; Orchard (1997) gives "the frenzied one" [1]) or Óð, sometimes anglicized as Odr or Od, is a figure associated with ...

  9. Present Laughter - Wikipedia

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    James Donald (Roland) and Noël Coward (Garry) in the original production of Present Laughter. Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 but not produced until 1942 because the Second World War began while it was in rehearsal, and the British theatres closed.