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  • 91crabbed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crabby, ill tempered, irascible, surly, growly, cross, peevish; cramped, illegible, squeezed. See irascibility, unintelligibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sour tempered] Syn. grouchy, peevish,… …

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  • 92testy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. irritable, irascible, petulant, cross; ornery (inf.), tetchy (dial.). See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. grouchy, touchy, peevish; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …

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  • 93ugly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. repulsive (see ugliness); disagreeable, unpleasant; mean, hostile, quarrelsome. See unsavoriness, contention. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ill favored] Syn. unsightly, loathsome, hideous, homely,… …

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  • 94ornery — adj Informal. 1. cantankerous, surly, irascible, iracund, crabbed, crabby; ill natured, unfriendly, obnoxious, choleric; ill tempered, bad tempered, short tempered, quick tempered; brusque, peppery, crusty, grumpy, grouchy, dyspeptic, bearish,… …

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  • 95perverse — adj 1. contrary, contradictory, Archaic. contrarious, froward, contumacious, cross grained, seditious, refractory, querulous; wayward, disobedient, intransigent, wrong headed; troublesome, vexatious, difficult; wild, unruly, unmanageable,… …

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  • 96wind instrument — /wind/ a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute. [1575 85] * * * ▪ music Introduction       any musical instrument that uses air as the primary vibrating medium for the… …

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  • 97china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …

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  • 98China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …

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  • 99waspish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. snappish, petulant, irascible; slender waisted. See irascibility, narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. bad tempered, snappish, crabby*; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. bad… …

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  • 100Convolution — For the usage in formal language theory, see Convolution (computer science). Convolution of two square pulses: the resulting waveform is a triangular pulse. One of the functions (in this case g) is first reflected about τ = 0 and then offset by t …

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