Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

fractious

 

1) unruly; hard to manage; 2) peevish, irritable, easily angered

 

Placed under NATO command, some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army proved to be as fractious as the departing Serbs.

 

Related English word: fractiousness 

 

Latin root word: frango. frangere, fregi, fractus - to break

 

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