truculent: [adjective] aggressively self-assertive : belligerent.

The meaning of OPPROBRIOUS is expressive of opprobrium : scurrilous. How to use opprobrious in a sentence.

Etymology. The etymology of the Scots word kelpie is uncertain, but it may be derived from the Gaelic calpa or cailpeach, meaning "heifer" or "colt".The first recorded use of the term to describe a mythological creature, then spelled kaelpie, appears in the manuscript of an ode by William Collins, composed some time before 1759 and reproduced in the Transactions of the Royal …

etymology denunciation (n.) early 15c., denunciacioun, "act of declaring or stating something" (a sense now obsolete), from Latin denunciacionem / denuntiationem (nominative denuntiatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of denuntiare "to announce, proclaim; denounce, menace; command, order," from de "down" (see de-) + nuntiare ...

W. Many imported words beginning with "w" in English have cognates in French that start with a "g" or "gu". This is because the English word was not borrowed directly from French or Old French, but from some of the northern langue d'oïl dialects such as Picard and Norman, where the original "w" sound was preserved (the majority of these words are words of Germanic origin, and stem …

Synonyms for well include marvellously, marvelously, beautifully, exceptionally, favourably, favorably, great, magnificently, nicely and splendidly. Find more similar ...

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