pugnacious: combative
When the cricket team was booed, the captain pugnaciously spat back, "if you think it is that easy, give it a try"
excoriate: criticize harshly
When she left the car keys in the ignition and the car was stolen, she was excoriated and banned from driving ever again!
atavism: throwback ... It is ancestral throwback, meaning reappearing of the traits which had disappeared generations ago.
it is return to previous way of doing things or seeing things.
Living in straw huts without electricity or listening to gramophones can be said to be atavism.
Modern art is said t be atavism of the art found in small villages of Africa or South America.
probity : Integrity.
Politicians need to have the probity to lead.
supercilious: arrogant.
The air-hostess was superciliously towards the economy class as compared to those in the business class.
When the cricket team was booed, the captain pugnaciously spat back, "if you think it is that easy, give it a try"
excoriate: criticize harshly
When she left the car keys in the ignition and the car was stolen, she was excoriated and banned from driving ever again!
atavism: throwback ... It is ancestral throwback, meaning reappearing of the traits which had disappeared generations ago.
it is return to previous way of doing things or seeing things.
Living in straw huts without electricity or listening to gramophones can be said to be atavism.
Modern art is said t be atavism of the art found in small villages of Africa or South America.
probity : Integrity.
Politicians need to have the probity to lead.
supercilious: arrogant.
The air-hostess was superciliously towards the economy class as compared to those in the business class.
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