Nerve and Understanding

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Nerve noun - Shameless boldness.

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Understanding and nerve are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understanding" instead a noun "Nerve".

Nearby Words: nervous, nervy, nerveless, nerved, nervation

Understanding noun - An arrangement about action to be taken.

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Nerve and understanding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nerve" instead a noun "Understanding".

emotional	emotional nerve	emotional understanding
good	good nerve	good understanding
solid	solid nerve	solid understanding
real	real nerve	real understanding
Other adjectives: great, little, general, different.

There was a tacit understanding that if either side started using chemical weapons, the other side would retaliate with their own chemical weapons, and escalation would soon lead to whole armies and entire cities being nerve gassed.

Source: Gas Mask Mooks
In the original short story, he's only three, which means he's not so much evil as incapable of understanding that it's wrong to hurt others, the more so as nobody's ever had the nerve to tell him "no".

Source: Enfant Terrible

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