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Sunday, May 23, 2010

rancor

p. 132. "Please don't." Her voice was cold, but the rancor was gone from it.

Definition: bitter, resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.

rancor (noun)
rancorous (adjective)
rancorously (adverb)

Financial regulatory reform is a hot-button topic recently, the cause of much rancor in the Congress and amongst the public.


In an e-mail to CNN.com, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes responded to the growing rancor over the site's privacy settings and policies, which underwent
some changes in April.
Posted by Bradstreet at 2:05 PM
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