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Noun: mettle  me-t(u)l
  1. The courage to carry on
    "you haven't got the mettle for baseball";
    - heart, nerve, spunk [informal]

Sounds like: m

Derived forms: mettles

Type of: bottle [Brit, informal], braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness

Encyclopedia: Mettle

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