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Dr. B's Vocab Quiz 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Testy | adj. irritably impatient; touchy. |
| Tetchy | adj. bad-tempered; irritable |
| Terse | adj. neatly or effectively concise; brief; brusque |
| Irascible | adj. easily provoked to anger |
| Vituperate | verb. to use or address with harsh or abusive language |
| Execrate | verb. to detest utterly; abhor |
| Abominate | verb. to regard with intense aversion or loathing |
| Excoriate | verb. to denounce or berate severely; to strip off or remove the skin from |
| Truculent | adj. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal |
| Bilious | adj. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile; peevish |
| Cavil | verb. to raise irritating and trivial objections. noun. frivolous objections |
| Castigate | verb. to criticize or to punish in order to correct |
| Splenetic | adj. of the spleen; spiteful. |
| Phlegmatic | adj. not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; calm |
| Derogate | verb. to disparage or belittle; to stray in character |
| Plaintive | adj. expressing melancholy |
| Insouciant | adj. carefree; nonchalant |
| Commensurate | adj. proportionate; adequate. |