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  • 81haste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Swiftness Nouns haste, urgency; dispatch; acceleration, spurt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; impatience, impetuosity; expedition, earliness; hurry,… …

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  • 82temper — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. temperament, nature, disposition; mood, humor, tone; tantrum, passion, rage; mettle, quality; calmness, composure, equanimity. See irascibility, feeling, intrinsic. v. t. moderate, soften; harden,… …

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  • 83impatience — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Irritability] Syn. fretfulness, hastiness, quick temper; see anger , annoyance 1 . 2. [Restlessness] Syn. eagerness, agitation, disquietude, anxiety; see care 2 , excitement , nervousness 1 , 2 . II (Roget s 3… …

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  • 84fretful — fret|ful [ˈfretfəl] adj anxious and complaining, and unable to relax ▪ The child was tired and fretful. >fretfully adv >fretfulness n [U] …

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  • 85fretful — adjective anxious or irritated. Derivatives fretfully adverb fretfulness noun …

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  • 86ill-humor — n. Fretfulness, peevishness, petulance, testiness, ill temper …

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  • 87irritability — n. 1. Irascibility, fretfulness, testiness, peevishness, petulance, excitability, snappishness. 2. Susceptibility (to the influence of a stimulus). 3. Excitability, high susceptibility …

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  • 88petulance — n. Peevishness, fretfulness, testiness, waspishness, crustiness, pettishness, snappishness, irritability, ill temper …

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  • 89techiness — n. Peevishness, fretfulness, touchiness, frowardness …

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  • 90testiness — n. Fretfulness, peevishness, petulance, irascibility, irritability, hastiness, techiness, touchiness …

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