| MINACIOUS | • minacious adj. (Now rare) Synonym of threatening, in its various senses. • MINACIOUS adj. threatening.
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| TENACIOUS | • tenacious adj. Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive. • tenacious adj. Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
 • tenacious adj. Holding together; cohesive.
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| PUGNACIOUS | • pugnacious adj. Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose. • PUGNACIOUS adj. having a quarrelsome or combative nature.
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| MINACIOUSLY | • minaciously adv. Synonym of threateningly: in a minacious manner. • MINACIOUS adv. threatening.
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| TENACIOUSLY | • tenaciously adv. In a tenacious manner. • TENACIOUS adv. holding on.
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| PERTINACIOUS | • pertinacious adj. Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose. • pertinacious adj. Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.
 • PERTINACIOUS adj. stubbornly unyielding.
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| PUGNACIOUSLY | • pugnaciously adv. In an aggressive or combative manner. • PUGNACIOUS adv. having a quarrelsome or combative nature.
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| TURBINACIOUS | • TURBINACIOUS adj. (Scott) of the smell of whiskey, peaty. | 
| TENACIOUSNESS | • tenaciousness n. The characteristic of being tenacious; tenacity. • TENACIOUSNESS n. the state of being tenacious.
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| PERTINACIOUSLY | • pertinaciously adv. In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one’s opinion or course of action. • PERTINACIOUS adv. stubbornly unyielding.
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| PUGNACIOUSNESS | • pugnaciousness n. The act or quality of being pugnacious. • PUGNACIOUS n. having a quarrelsome or combative nature.
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| TENACIOUSNESSES | • TENACIOUSNESS n. the state of being tenacious. |