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  • 111harebrained — Synonyms and related words: absurd, adventurous, arbitrary, audacious, balmy, bold, brainless, capricious, cranky, crazy, crotchety, daredevil, daring, death defying, dizzy, empty headed, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, featherbrained,… …

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  • 112presumptuous — Synonyms and related words: acceptable, adventurous, arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, busy, busybody, cheeky, cold, complacent, confident, contumelious, cool, daredevil, daring, death defying, disdainful, egotistical …

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  • 113wild — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Dionysiac, Gothic, Neanderthal, Sahara, abandoned, absurd, accident prone, addled, adventurous, agitated, agrarian, amok, anarchic, angry, animal, at fever pitch, atrocious, audacious,… …

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  • 114Insolence — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Undue assumption of superiority. < N PARAG:Insolence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insolence insolence Sgm: N 1 haughtiness haughtiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 arrogance arrogance airs Sgm: N 1 overbearance overbearance …

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  • 115mezzo —    (MET zoh) [Italian] In the arts: half, medium, or middle, usually combined with another word, e.g., mezzotint, mezzosoprano, or mezza voce (with half the power of the voice).    No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo soprano Suzanna Guzman, a… …

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  • 116bullying — I. a. Blustering, swaggering, vaporing, vaunting, hectoring, bluff, gruff, bearish. II. n. Bluster, swagger, fanfaronade, gasconade, vaporing, hectoring, fire eating, mock heroics, browbeating, domineering …

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  • 117star — 1 noun (C) 1 IN THE SKY a burning mass of gases in space that can be seen at night as a point of light in the sky: I lay on my back and looked up at the stars. see also: falling star, shooting star 2 PERFORMER a) a famous and successful performer …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 118argumentative — [adj] wanting to quarrel belligerent, combative, contentious, contrary, controversial, disputatious, factious, fire eating, having a chip on one’s shoulder*, litigious, opinionated, pugnacious, quarrelsome, salty, scrappy, spiky, touchy; concept… …

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  • 119combative — [adj] aggressive antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, cussed, energetic, fire eating*, gladiatorial, hawkish, militant, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ructious, scrappy, strenuous, triggerhappy*, truculent, warlike …

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  • 120courageous — [adj] brave, bold adventuresome, adventurous, assured, audacious, cool, daredevil, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, fiery, fire eating*, gallant, game, gritty*, gutsy*, hardy, heroic, high spirited, impavid, indomitable, intrepid,… …

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