Because I’m getting weary of using the same damn word virtually every day to describe my state of being, I’ve delved (delicately: the pages are fragile) into my father’s 1924 Roget’s Thesaurus to get synonyms I might use in the immediate future.<\/p>\n
A short list, from which I’ve bolded some of the more delicious ones:<\/p>\n
RESENTMENT, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, ire, indignation, exasperation, vexation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pique, dudgeon,<\/strong> acerbity, virulence, acrimony, asperity, spleen<\/strong>, gall, heartburning, heart-swelling, rankling.<\/p>\n RAGE, fury, towering rage, passion, paroxysm, fire and fury, vials of wrath<\/strong>, gnashing of teeth<\/strong>, hot blood.<\/p>\n UMBRAGE, affront, provocation, offense, indignity, red rag, casus belli<\/strong>…and<\/p>\n Outrage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because I’m getting weary of using the same damn word virtually every day to describe my state of being, I’ve delved (delicately: the pages are fragile) into my father’s 1924 Roget’s Thesaurus to get synonyms I might use in the … Continue reading