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1Tinder — is easily combustible material used to ignite fires by rudimentary methods. A small fire consisting of tinder is then used to ignite kindling. Anything that can be ignited by a match can be considered tinder. Materials commonly used as tinder:*… …
2tinder-like — tinˈder like adjective (Shakespeare) Inflammable as tinder • • • Main Entry: ↑tinder …
3The Tinder Box (novella) — infobox Book | name = The Tinder Box title orig = translator = image caption = author = Minette Walters cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = Dutch, later English series = genre = Crime / Mystery novel publisher = Pan Books release… …
4ARAB POPULATION — GENERAL SURVEY Under the British Mandate, 1917–48 In 1917, at the time of the British conquest of Palestine during World War I, the country s Arabic speaking population numbered less than 600,000 persons; in 1947 it was estimated at 1,200,000.… …
5Irascibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irascibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility irascibleness temper Sgm: N 1 crossness crossness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 susceptibility susceptibility procacity petulance irritability …
6Great Fire of 1892 — The Great Fire in St. John s, Newfoundland and Labrador on July 8, 1892, is remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall that city. At approximately five o clock in the afternoon on July 8, 1892, a dropped pipe in Timothy O Brien s stable at… …
7irascible — a. Irritable, touchy, testy, waspish, quick, snappish, splenetic, petulant, choleric, peppery, hot, hasty, like tinder, like touchwood …
8peppery — a. 1. Hot, Pungent, high seasoned, hot as pepper. 2. Irritable, irascible, touchy, testy, waspish, snappish, snariling, churlish, choleric, petulant, excitable, passionate, hasty, quick, like tinder, like touch wood …
9touchy — a. Peevish, snappish, waspish, cross, testy, irritable, fretful, splenetic, techy, irascible, petulant, choleric, peppery, hot tempered, quick tempered, like tinder, like touchwood …
10hasty — adj 1. quick, rapid, swift, fleet, fast, brisk; prompt, expeditious, instantaneous, immediate; rushing, hurried, running, urgent, winged, light footed, light legged, light of heel, eagle winged, quick as lightning, quick as a wink, swift as an… …
