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fractious
irritable, quarrelsome, or difficult to control
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fractious in a sentence
The fractious committee argued over every sentence.
The chair struggled to guide the fractious debate back to the agenda.
Where it comes from
From Latin frangere, meaning 'to break.'
Memory hook
FRACTIOUS shares a root with fracture: a fractious group breaks into arguments.
Read it in context
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