Challenge #72: Vulnerable

[spikedluv]

The Ball challenge is now closed.

Our next challenge is: Vulnerable.

Def:

1. capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon;
2. open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc;
3. (of a place) open to assault; difficult to defend.

Syn:

Accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open.

Ant:

Closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure.
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Quote:

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it. Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Go ahead and twist the challenge however you want, it’s up to you. *g*

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