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1. Definition: 1. just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"

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1. Definition: 1. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

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1. Definition: 1. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

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1. Definition: 1. ludicrous, foolish;

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1. Definition: 1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

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1. Definition: 1. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

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1. Definition: 1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"

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1. Definition: 1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

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1. Definition: 1. darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

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1. Definition: 1. not behaving normally

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1. Definition: 1. behave extremely cruelly and brutally

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1. Definition: 1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

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1. Definition: 1. annoyed and irritable

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1. Definition: 1. informal terms; strikingly unconventional

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1. Definition: 1. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

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1. Definition: 1. resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

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1. Definition: 1. not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"

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1. Definition: 1. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

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1. Definition: 1. form into twists; "Twist the strips of dough"

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1. Definition: 1. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

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1. Definition: 1. the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton

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1. Definition: 1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

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1. Definition: 1. incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"

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1. Definition: 1. a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

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1. Definition: 1. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

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1. Definition: 1. devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"

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1. Definition: 1. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

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1. Definition: 1. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

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1. Definition: 1. an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism

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1. Definition: 1. marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"

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1. Definition: 1. beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"

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1. Definition: 1. likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

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1. Definition: 1. relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era"

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