pugnacity
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
pugn
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
pugnacity
the state or quality of being eager and ready to fight, being quarrelsome, being combative
好斗性
pugnacity 的切分如下:
pugnacity = pugn (fight; fist 打架； 拳头) + -acity (quality 性质);
pugnacity = the quality of liking or tending to fight 好斗性
现在我来再次切分一下该词试试
pugnacity = the quality of liking or tending to fight 好斗性
该词的重要词根如下:
-acity
pugn
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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