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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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splenetic: synonyms: irascible, acerbic, choleric, pugnacious ???

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Definition:

of the spleen, therefore spiteful, bad-tempered

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To write within such severe rules as these is as impossible as to live up to some splenetic opinions: and if we judge according to the sentiments of some critics, and of some Christians, no author will be saved in this world, and no man in the next.

Henry James. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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I pr'ythee, take thy fingers from my throat; For, though I am not splenetive* and rash,

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

^{*only Shakespeare uses this form of the word.}