Random Word of the Week: Audacious

 

An audacious child.

Audacious

       Pronounced ah-day-shuss or au-dácious, this term denotes a subject (person, place or thing) as bold, daring or shameless; lacking shame or embarrassment. It is often applied to people who are unafraid to speak their minds to others or who are brave enough to stand up against oppressive people. Audacious can be turned into an adverb, such as audaciously, a descriptor such as audaciousness and even a noun as audacity. The term is most often used, however, with an exasperated tone when someone is upset that someone else had the audacity to say or do something that upset them. Audacious is made up of the root words, “audere” and “acious”, of which the Latin “audere” denotes “to dare” and “acious” refers to “inclined to”. 

Pinkie Pie being audacious in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

       Audacious is the second word in this series because it is becoming increasingly important in this world for people to be a little more audacious with their personal needs and with the greater collective needs of others who are marginalized. You can choose to be brave, to speak up, to be audacious.