moxie

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  • mŏk'sē, /ʼmɒksi/, /mQksi/
    Rhymes: -ɒksi

[edit] Noun

moxie (uncountable)

  1. backbone, determination and fortitude
  2. initiative or skill
    "As a girl she had speed and a knock-kneed moxie at athletics, and might have done more with it if she hadn't harvested all the glory already." - from "Rabbit Redux" by John Updike

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