pugnacious
C2CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
Keen to fight or quarrel; combative by temperament.
The pugnacious young boxer refused to back down even against far heavier opponents.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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