Derring-do (n)

It’s an old-fashioned word, and may in fact one of those nouns that the late, great Joseph Mitchell called “tinsel words.” Nonetheless, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun derring-do. It means, for those who have never seen an Errol Flynn film, “daring action” and is often used in the locution “deeds of derring-do.”

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