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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
truculent
 
SYLLABICATION:truc·u·lent
PRONUNCIATION:  trky-lnt
ADJECTIVE:1. Disposed to fight; pugnacious. 2. Expressing bitter opposition; scathing: a truculent speech against the new government. 3. Disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, fierce. See ter-2 in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:trucu·lent·ly —ADVERB
 
 
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