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Vocabulary: courage and cowardice

This is an "important" theme in conversation and in the assessment of our own actions or other people's...

Come on! Let's face this difficulty courageously !  

BASES: (nouns, adjectives and adverbs)

Having or showing good manners, polite: to be courteous=> courteousness

 To be daring...                              He's a coward... 

Synonyms for being a coward (=> cowardice): to be a chicken, to be chicken-hearted, to be lily-livered, to be white-livered, to be yellow, to be yellow-bellied. [You can see that FEAR has an impact on your heart and your liver!   ]

 They are Super heroes...                                         but you don't have to be...                                                                                                

EXPRESSIONS: 

- To have plenty of spirit: to be energetic, to do all you can.

- to keep one's head/ keep one's cool: to remain calm

- to have pluck: to have courage, a desire not to give up or surrender. 

- to have a nerve: = a criticism

- to have the nerve to do something: to have the will to do something bold, daring

- to overrate one's strength: to overestimate one's strength

- to take up a challenge: to accept or attempt some particular test, fight, contest, etc.

- to dare someone to do something: to be brave enough to do something

  To jump out of your skin

... and idioms: 

- to get/ have the jitters: to experience  a feling of fright or uneasiness

- to jump out of your skin: to be extremely surprised and shocked

- to have nerves of steel: to remain calm in dangerous or difficult situations

- to be quaking in one's boots: trembling with fear

- to scare the living daylights out of someone: to terrify someone

- to be on tenterhooks: waiting nervously for something to happen

- to whistle in the dark: they are trying to remain brave and convince themselves that the situation is not as bad as it seems

- to be at your wits' end: completely puzzled and perplexed

I hope you're relieved to see that you can do it quite easily... You'll have the proof of it with the following test... I know you'll pass it with Flying Colours... 

Go for it!  

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1. The little girl entered the stage cowardlyfearfullyboldlyI don't know, smiled and started telling the poem written for her.



2. 'Be careful, this kid is a real daredevilcowardchickenI don't know and must be watched at all times.'



3. This was such a fearfulpluckycowardcowardlyI don't know reaction that I couldn’t accept it and told him what I thought about him.



4. 'Remain polite, have plenty of spiritkeep your cooloverrate your strengthI don't know and hope... Everything will be alright.'



5. Jenny’s always willing to take up a challengehave a nervehave pluckI don't know, and most of the time, she succeeds!



6. It took her a lot of cowardicepluckquake in her bootsI don't know to assert herself in her male work environment.



7. 'Of course I know my part, but before starting to act, I always scare the daylightstake up challengeshave the jittersI don't know and fear I might forget my lines.'



8. After the incident, she was at her wits' endchickening outwhistling in the darkI don't know but felt a lot better when her parents arrived.



9. 'I’m not good enough... therefore, I chose to chicken outchallengekeeping my coolI don't know and tried the level below.'



10. CowardlyFearlessChallengingI don't know women, the Suffragettes fought for their rights in spite of oppositions in the society of the time.