pluck

the trait of showing courage or determination in the face of injury or potential loss.

I can't find enough pluck to go and speak to her.

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effrontery

brazen boldness; presumptuousness.

Jason's effrontery got the best of him last night. He got his head pounded-in after he exchanged a few heated words with a guy in an empty parking lot.

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