brazen

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

brazen adj. – (brazenly) exaggerated fearlessness or boldness

deftly

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

deftly adv. – (deft) to move in a quick and skillful manner

fetish

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

fetish n. – an abnormal attention or attachment

impulse

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

impulse n. (impulsively) a sudden wish or urge.

intuition

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

intuition n. (intuitively, intuit) a sense of knowing; an insight.

lapses

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.

reverie

Like most of her daydreams about Carl, in this reverie, she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding hands.

meditation

   Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days.

tedious

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

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.