Word to the Wise: Bravado

“Bravado” (bruh-VAH-doh) – from the Spanish – is a pretentious, swaggering display of courage. Example (as used by William Styron in the short story “Rat Beach”): “When I was seventeen, bravado, mingled with what must have been a death wish, made me enlist in the officer-training program of the Marine Corps.” [Ed. Note: [...]