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    RANCOR

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-willplay

    Synonyms:

    bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

    Hypernyms ("rancor" is a kind of...):

    enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rancor"):

    heartburning (intense resentment)

    huffishness; sulkiness (a feeling of sulky resentment)

    grievance; grudge; score (a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation)

    enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)

    Derivation:

    rancorous (showing deep-seated resentment)

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