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单词 pugnacious
释义 pug·na·cious
\ˌpəgˈnāshəs\ adjective
Etymology: Latin pugnac-, pugnax pugnacious (from pugnare to fight, from pugnus fist) + English -ious — more at pungent
: having a quarrelsome or belligerent nature : thriving on challenge : aggressive, truculent
 < bushpigs are most courageous and pugnacious animals … capable of putting up a successful fight even against a leopard — James Stevenson-Hamilton >
 < pugnacious spirits … lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance — Herman Melville >
 < equally pugnacious when it came to fighting for human rights — P.V.D.Stern >
 < not a pugnacious enough mediocrity to earn a larger salary — V.A.Young >
belligerent
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