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Usage

• contumacious

  Someone who is contumacious is purposely stubborn, contrary, or disobedient.

• mendacious

  A mendacious person does not tell the truth.

• voracious

  A voracious person has a strong desire to want a lot of something, especially food.

• loquacious

  Someone who is loquacious talks too much.

• rapacious

  If you describe a person's behavior as rapacious, you disapprove of them because they always want more money, goods, or possessions than they really need.

• pertinacious

  Someone who is pertinacious is determined to continue doing something rather than giving up—even when it gets very difficult.

• capacious

  Something that is capacious has a lot of space and can contain a lot of things.

• vivacious

  If someone is described as vivacious, they are lively and have a happy, lighthearted manner.

• tenacious

  A tenacious person does not quit until they finish what they've started.

• pugnacious

  To act in a pugnacious manner is to act in a combative and aggressive way.

• fallacious

  containing or based on a fallacy

• veracious

  habitually speaking the truth