Word of the Day:
intrepid
What It Means
Intrepid in Context
“Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.”
Did You Know?
From French intrépide, from Latin intrepidus, from in- (“not”) + trepidus (“anxious, nervous”).
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