Brazen

Example:  James made several brazen attempts to cross the busy street on his tricycle, but he chickened out every time.

Definition

exaggerated fearlessness or boldness

(brazenly)

Deftly

Example:  The crowd roared with  applause when Alisha finished her deftly executed routine.

Definition

to move in a quick and skillful manner

(deft)

Fetish

 Example:  Jeremy had an abnormal,  childish fetish for sucking his thumb, even though he was fourteen years old.

Definition

 an abnormal attention or attachment

Impulse 

Even though he had the impulse to run and hide, Laron courageously stood strong and faced the bully.

Definition

a sudden wish or urge.

(impulsively)

Intuition

Meagan trusted her intuition about her date and left the restaurant without saying goodbye because she had a feeling something was odd.

Definition

a sense of knowing; an insight.

(intuitively, intuit)

^Lapse

While waiting to go on stage, Alvin experienced a momentary lapse into stage fright, but he pulled himself out of it and went on with the show.

Definition

to sink or slip gradually.

(lapsed, lapsing)

Reviere

The boy, curly- headed like his mother and glowing with health, sat on his knee, and Prince Andrew began telling him the story of Bluebeard, but fell into a reviere

 without finishing the story.

Definition

a daydream.

(reveries)

Meditation

the girl was in a deep meditation when she suddenly awoke in disbelif that she was peaceful

Definition

an act of deep thinking or reflection.

(meditate, meditating, meditates, meditated)

Tedious

Every minute she waited for her mother to pick her up after school became more tedious because she had nothing to do.

Definition

boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness.

(tediously)

Perverse

 Gizelle thought it was a perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with Cara Smithers, the woman she bullied relentlessly in eighth grade.

Definition

turned away from what is right or good.

(perverted, pervert)