Courage and Want

Courage

Courage noun - Strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger.

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Want and courage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Want" instead a noun "Courage".

Nearby Words: courageous, courageously

Want noun - The fact or state of being absent.

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Courage and want are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Courage" instead a noun "Want".

Nearby Words: wanting, wanted

original	original courage	original want
true	true courage	true want
actual	actual courage	actual want
real	real courage	real want
Other adjectives: extreme, great, enormous, little, personal, last.

Others simply want the same things the heroes do: wealth, love, food, etc., but they lack the moral integrity, courage, or knowledge to be a heroic character.

Source: Put Them All Out of My Misery
He notes that they have much potential, and he admires humans' capacity for love / friendship / loyalty / courage / persistence / whatever virtue it is the writers want to Aesop.

Source: Patrick Stewart Speech
And after that, spends six episodes helping his three closest friends still at the Academy figure out what they want to do with their lives and helping them get the courage to do it.

Source: Growing Up Sucks

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