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51boldness — n. 1. Fearlessness, dauntlessness, intrepidity, courage, bravery, doughtiness, dauntlessness, adventurousness, gallantry, spirit, mettle, valor, audacity, daring, pluck, heroism, hardihood, spunk. 2. Confidence, assurance, self reliance, self… …
52precipitous — adjective 1 dangerously high or steep: A precipitous path led down the cliff. 2 precipitate precipitously adverb precipitousness noun (U) …
53fast — fast, rapid, swift, fleet, quick, speedy, hasty, expeditious mean moving, proceeding, or acting with great celerity. Fast and rapid are often used without distinction; but fast frequently applies to the moving object and emphasizes the way in… …
54steep — adj Steep, abrupt, precipitous, sheer mean having an incline approaching the perpendicular. The words are here arranged in ascending order of degree of perpendicularity. Steep implies so sharp a slope or pitch that ascent or descent is difficult… …
55vertical — vertical, perpendicular, plumb can mean situated at right angles to the plane of the horizon or extending from that plane at such an angle. Vertical suggests a relation to the vertex or topmost point (see APEX 1); it is used most often when the… …
56acuteness — n 1. sharpness, keenness, pointedness; acumination, cuspidation, spinousness. 2. intensity, exquisiteness, fierceness; poignancy, piquancy, pungency. 3. abruptness, suddenness, rapidness, extremity, precipitousness. 4. severity, criticalness,… …
57speed — n 1. rapidity, haste, hurry, hurriedness, celerity, velocity, speediness; alacrity, promptness, dispatch; swiftness, fleetness, quickness, fastness, ex peditiousness, precipitousness. v 2. further, forward, expedite, promote, advance; nudge ahead …
58thoughtlessness — n 1. carelessness, heedlessness, unmindfulness, regardlessness, disregardfulness, negligence, neglectfulness, remissness; inadvertence, inat tentiveness, unobservance; inconsiderateness, incon sideration, insensibility, unthinkingness,… …
59precipitous — /prəˈsɪpətəs / (say pruh sipuhtuhs) adjective 1. of the nature of a precipice, or characterised by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock. 2. extremely or impassably steep. 3. hasty; rash. {obsolete precipitious, from Latin praecipitium precipice …
60surprise — [n] something amazing; state of amazement abruptness, amazement, astonishment, astoundment, attack, awe, bewilderment, bombshell*, consternation, curiosity, curveball*, disappointment, disillusion, eye opener*, fortune, godsend*, incredulity,… …
