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bolder (BOHL duhr) (adjective)
1. More daring and resistant than someone else: If a person wants to be noticed, perhaps he or she needs to be a little bolder.
2. Showing or needing confidence or lack of fear: Few politicians have been bolder than those who want to cut taxes.
2. Showing or needing confidence or lack of fear: Few politicians have been bolder than those who want to cut taxes.
boulder (BOHL duhr) (noun)
A very large stone or rounded piece of rock: The road was blocked by a boulder.
When Roberto was removing rocks from the hill with his earth moving machine, he was thinking that he could see a boulder that was bolder than the others because it resisted the pressures which he was using to bring it down.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group B; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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