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audacious

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showing bold and daring disregard for risk or convention

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Audacious in a sentence

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Their audacious plan to cross the desert on foot stunned the experts.

Synonyms
bolddaringintrepid
Antonyms
timidcautiouscowardly

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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence

The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.

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Audacious (adjective) means showing bold and daring disregard for risk or convention
Here is audacious used in an example sentence: "Their audacious plan to cross the desert on foot stunned the experts."
Common synonyms for audacious include bold, daring, intrepid.
Antonyms of audacious include timid, cautious, cowardly.
Audacious is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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