temper
A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
State of mind; mood.
A tendency to become angry.
Anger; a fit of anger.
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
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Alliteration
Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)
Assonance
Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing