| Front | Fractious (adjective) |
|---|---|
| Back | Unruly; hard to manage; rebellious. Fractious is close in meaning to one of our target words from an earlier lecture, contumacious, an adjective meaning stubbornly rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient. The root fract in fractious is derived from the verb Latin frango, meaning “to break.” |
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