1. Cluster 7 &8
Done by: Hiba Shams
Sara Al-Hadithi
Tala Adib

2. Animosity
•Hatred, ill will, strong hostility
•The animosity grew between the couple
who never spared a chance to fight.

3. Antagonism
• Openly expressed and usually mutual opposition or the
condition of being of an opposing principle.
• The antagonism between the two parties grew to an
extent that violence became mundane in their debates.

4. Bellicose
•Demonstrating aggression and willingness
to fight.
•The president’s bellicose speech caused a
war between the two nations.

5. Belligerent
•Hostile, aggressive, or showing readiness to
fight.
•Juan’s belligerence always results in quarrels
with her teachers.

6. Cantankerou
s
•Bad-tempered or irritable; quarrelsome.
•Cantankerous children are the hardest to
deal with; they are stubborn and easily lose
their temper.

7. Captious
• marked by an often illnatured inclination to
stress faults and raise
objections.
• Tina’s captious nature
irritated her husband, who
is always criticized by her.

8. Contentious
•Causing or likely to cause an argument.
•You can’t talk to the contentious old
lady without getting into an argument.

9. Disputatious
• The act of disputing ,debate or argument
• Our disputatious neighbor is always finding
something to complain and argue about.

10. Polemical
• A controversial argument, especially one
refuting or attacking a specific opinion .
• He also launched a powerful polemical against
the growing movement for us intervention in
Mexico.

11. Predator
• One that preys , destroy ,or devours
• Investigate their social lives and how they
defended themselves against those fearsome
predators was a success.

12. Pugnacious
• Combative in nature; ready to fight.
• Because the pugnacious actor argues with
everyone, it is hard for him to find work.

13. altruistic
• unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the
welfare of others.
• An altruistic firefighter risks his life to save
another's life.

14. benevolent
• showing or motivated by sympathy
,understanding and generosity
• If your teacher collects homework with a
benevolent smile, she's hoping that you've
done a good job.

15. largess
• a gift or money given.
• He used of great largess when he gave money
to the poor.

16. Lavish
• giving or using a large amount of something
• This cook is lavish with spices.

17. Magnanimous
• Showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and
generosity of mind.
• She was too magnanimous to resent all the things
others had said to her.

18. Munificent
• a very generous person, or a person or a gift that is
more generous than necessary.
• The munificent gift was presented to the bride by
her rich uncle.

19. Philanthropic
• Of, relating to, or marked by philanthropy;
humanitarian
• His goals are mainly philanthropic social and
international.

20. Prodigal
•characterized by profuse or wasteful
expenditure
•the prodigal teenager always spent her
allowance the minute she got it

21. Squander
•to use (something)
in a foolish or
wasteful way
•He squandered all
his money gambling
in casinos.