Example sentence - His daughter needs to learn to curb her pugnacity.
The word 'pugnacity' is a noun, a word for the tendency to be forceful and antagonistic.A noun is used as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.Examples:His pugnacity has lost him several promotions. (subject of the sentence)The boxer preferred to behave with pugnacity toward his opponent. (object of the preposition 'with')
After a few beers, he feels a compelling need to demonstrate his pugnacity, which typically leads to incarceration shortly after he throws the first punch of the bar fight.
hostility, malice, antagonism, antipathy, ill will, pugnacity
The meaning of the name Bope in Shona language of the African origin is "snappishness, pugnacity, riotous."
nounnoun: aggressionhostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront."his chin was jutting with aggression"synonyms:hostility, aggressiveness, belligerence, bellicosity, force, violence; More pugnacity, pugnaciousness, militancy, warmongering; attack, assault"an act of aggression"
Some words end with acity: * audacity * capacity * edacity * efficacity * feracity * fugacity * incapacity * loquacity * megacity * mendacity * minacity * opacity * overcapacity * perspicacity * pertinacity * predacity * pugnacity * rapacity * sagacity * salacity * sequacity * tenacity * veracity * vivacity * voracity
E. W. Gudger has written: 'The alleged pugnacity of the swordfish and the spearfishes as shown by their attacks on vessels' -- subject(s): Behavior, Swordfish, Spearfishes 'Notes on certain books of unusual interest in the Blackford collection of the Brooklyn museum' -- subject(s): Bibliography, Fishes, Fishing
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern -UGN-----. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter U and 3rd letter G and 4th letter N. In alphabetical order, they are: pugnacity
It is the first sentence of a paragraph which is the topic sentence.
It in symmetry with sentence a is what? What is a sentence with symmetry in it? This sentence with symmetry is symmetry with sentence this.
Who or what the sentence is about is the subject of the sentence.
Who or what the sentence is about is the subject of the sentence.