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A bilious person might...

• Spend all day arguing over the proper technique for making artisanal chaff and then retract their friendship over a single misplaced grain.

• Be overly concerned with the voracity of their cat's appetite.

• Retaliate against a minor slight by leaving a passive-aggressive note written in a virulent shade of green. 💚

• Be so cranky that they insist on a public retraction from the sun for being 'too bright.'

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What might a curmudgeon say?

• I'd like to offer my candid and completely unvarnished opinion: get off my lawn, you feckless youths, before I have to retaliate with a garden gnome!

• My heart is enshrouded in pure joy at your delightful presence!

• That new phone is as pointless as a screen door on a submarine.

• I demand a retraction of all previous birthday celebrations. They were too cheerful.

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When might it be necessary to parry?

• When your little brother tries to shroud your head with a sweater and you must retract quickly.

• When your friend tries to hit you with a rubber chicken after you offered a brutally candid opinion on their questionable fashion choices, necessitating a rapid defensive move to avoid retaliation.

• When you're trying to prove the voracity of a newly discovered virus.

• When a rogue piece of stale chaff comes flying at your face from the breakfast table.

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Why might you be incredulous if your parents bought you a puppy?

• Because they previously declared a retraction on all pets after the voracious hamster incident.

• Because they were so candid about their hatred for anything that sheds.

• Because they've shown themselves to be feckless when it comes to long-term responsibilities, and you suspect this is a joke retaliation for your poor grades.

• Because you're sure it's a dream, and you expect to wake up and immediately retract the word 'puppy' from your vocabulary.

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Which person is acting with malicious intent?

• The one who anonymously mails a bag of stale chaff to their rival.

• The one who spreads a baseless rumor so virulent it forces a colleague to issue a public retraction.

• The one who confesses with surprising candor that they ate the last slice of cake.

• The one who is a voracious consumer of library books but never renews them on time.

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Which movie character is trying to eradicate something?

• A character attempting to wipe out a widespread, highly virulent virus.

• A feckless romantic lead trying to eradicate his memory of a bad date by watching cat videos.

• A person attempting to shroud an ugly chair with a hideous throw blanket.

• The villain who wants to eradicate all delicious, freshly baked bread, leaving only dry chaff.

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If your dad creates your bookshelf in a slipshod way, it will likely...

• Be enshrouded in mystery as to how it's still standing.

• Require an immediate retraction and rebuild, possibly resulting in some retaliation from you.

• Be structurally sound despite the chaff and sawdust everywhere.

• Collapse under the voracious weight of your comic book collection.

Your parents told you the Youtube videos you are watching are utter dross. This means....

• They believe the content is so feckless and worthless it should be immediately scrapped, like useless grain chaff.

• They think the videos are so boring they shroud the screen in darkness.

• They are displaying impressive candor about the quality of online content.

• They plan to stage a full-scale retaliation by disconnecting the Wi-Fi.

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Which of the following people is bilious?

• The one who is a voracious reader of children's books.

• The one who threatens retaliation against the barista who made their latte foam too high.

• The one who offers a genuinely candid compliment to a stranger.

• The one who publicly issues a retraction of their previous promise to be nice.

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How might a curmudgeon act?

• With open and cheerful candor.

• With a voracious appetite for gossip.

• With constant grumbling and a public declaration that they will retract any previous pleasant statement they might have accidentally made.

• By creating a highly virulent strain of dissatisfaction in all social settings.

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