2008年12月12日 星期五

Truculent (belligerent) & Ferocious (bloodthirsty)






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–adjective 

1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal. 

2. brutally harsh; vitriolic (硫酸的); scathing: his truculent [criticism] of her work. 

3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.  



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And in Marie's encounter with Jean's mother Suzanne, the subtle hatred between the two women slowly escalates, nearly reaching a [stage] of vitriol at the end.



pungent sexual obscenities 

tart 

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vitriolic 硫酸

sulphur 硫磺



vitreous

vitriol

the subtle hatred between the two women slowly [escalates], nearly reaching a [stage] of vitriol at the end.



acrimonious

acrid

caustic 

piquant 

agreeably sharp or pungent in taste or flavor

a piquant [aspic].【詩】毒蛇, 調味肉汁

July finds her most piquant sample of enforced estrangement inside a gallery



mordant 

1. sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker, biting.

2. burning, corrosive.

3. having the property of fixing colors, as in dyeing.

and especially Ving Rhames add mordant [humor] to Cage's waking nightmare.

Radha Mitchell is rather [wan] as her chief love interest, 

but Patricia Clarkson is mordantly [funny] and surprisingly [affecting] as her German lover and drug-fiend pal.

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—Synonyms 

1. See fierce.



untamed; cruel, fell, brutal; barbarous, bloodthirsty, murderous. 



Fierce, ferocious, truculent suggest vehemence, and violence of temper, manner, or action: fierce in repelling a foe. 



Ferocious implies fierceness or cruelty, esp. of a bloodthirsty kind, in disposition or action: a ferocious glare; ferocious brutality toward [helpless] refugees. 



Truculent suggests an intimidating or bullying fierceness of manner or conduct: His truculent attitude kept them [terrified] and submissive. 



—Antonyms 

1. amiable, gentle.





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truculent (adj.)   

 

(pronounced TRUHK-yoo-lint) began by meaning 

"savage" but has come now mainly to mean 

"belligerent," as in 



He was truculent and spoiling for a fight. 





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About a thousand movies ago, I made the truculent, unprovable assertion that if Chinese grandmaster Hou Hsiao-hsien were French, he'd be the darling of the Lincoln Plazas. 





sanguine

ferocious

implies fierceness or cruelty, esp. of a bloodthirsty kind

a ferocious [beating]

ferocious brutality toward [helpless] refugees.  

pugnacious

truculent

savage & belligerent

suggests an intimidating or bullying fierceness 

his truculent [criticism] of her work

His truculent attitude kept them [terrified] and [sub]missive. 



ravenous

a famished condition

ravenous wild [beasts].

ravening

adds the idea of fierceness savagery

ravening [wolves]. 

veracious

voracious

1. 

craving a great deal of food

a voracious [appetite].

2. 

[rapacious], [insatiable]

voracious [readers] 

After all, a moviegoer’s [imaginative] life is voracious.

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