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truculent
What does truculent mean?
truculent (adjective): defiantly aggressive.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce truculent?
/ˈtɹʌkjələnt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does truculent come from?
First attested circa 1540, from Middle French, from Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “truculent” mean?
defiantly aggressive
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hasty or superficial
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not returned in kind
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delicately beautiful
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