rancour
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General noun
Bitter, long-lasting resentment or ill will.
Years after the divorce, not a trace of rancour remained between them.
Business noun
Long-lasting bitterness or resentment.
The mediator worked to strip the rancour out of the talks so the numbers could be discussed calmly.
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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