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Captious Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ous

Captious has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

tending to find and call attention to faults

"a captious pedant"

"an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

2

That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

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Rhyming Words
ous lous pous vous sous yous nous tous eous uous ious bous hous pious anous thous chous aneous mucous famous
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