Vocabulary Word
Word: disputatious
Definition: argumentative; fond of argument
Definition: argumentative; fond of argument
Sentences Containing 'disputatious'
"You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing."
More Vocab Words
singular - being only one; individual; unique; extraordinary; odd; Ex. singular beauty/behaviorfinale - conclusion; concluding part
hibernal - wintry; wintery; of or like winter
ferment - agitation; commotion(noisy and excited activity); unrest (of a political kind); V. produce by fermentation; undergo fermentation; cause (a state of trouble)
cursive - (of writing) flowing; running; having the successive letters joined
blunt - having a dull edge; abrupt and frank in speech or manner; brusque; V: make or become blunt
decelerate - slow down
wrangle - quarrel noisily; obtain through arguing; herd cattle; N.
soliloquy - talking to oneself (esp. in a play); CF. monologue: soliloquy; long speech by one person (often monopolizing a conversation)
perspicuity - clearness of expression; freedom from ambiguity
