Audacity (noun)
aw-das-it-ee
boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
1400–50 late Middle English audacite
Example sentences
“I was surprised she had the audacity to pull it off.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
