grit
Other forms: gritted; grits; gritting
Grit is a coarse, gravelly dust. If you don't rinse dried beans before you cook them, you may end up crunching grit between your teeth.
Grit is small, sandy pieces of rock or stone. Another way to use the word grit is to mean a determined, courageous attitude. If you have grit, you'll keep trying to climb a rock wall no matter how many times you slip and fall. Charles Portis's 1968 novel "True Grit" tells the story of a young girl in the 1800s who embodies this quality, persevering through extreme difficulty and struggle.
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a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
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cover with a grit
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clench together“grit one's teeth”
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type of:
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clench
squeeze together tightly
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clench
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fortitude and determination
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In this novel, a boy with facial anomalies tries to navigate the sometimes treacherous world of public school. Here is a link to Auggie & Me by R.J. Palacio.
Jess and Leslie spend their free time playing in the fantasy land of Terabithia; but when tragedy strikes, one of them will have to learn to cope with loss in the real world.
Billy saves enough money to buy two pups, Old Dan and Little Ann. Together they become one of the best hunting teams in the Ozarks—and devoted friends as well. But when the unthinkable happens, Billy must learn how to nurture hope in a time of tragedy.