SG Heritage Dictionary

Irascibility Roget’s Thesaurus §901

N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity &c, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, sir fretful plagiary, brabbler, tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury

V. be irascible, have a temper, have a devil in one, fire up

Adj. irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, "sudden and quick in quarrel", querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acaritre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive

Int. pish, phr, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira

Revenge Roget’s Thesaurus §919

N. revenge, revengement, vengeance, avengement, avengeance|, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation, day of reckoning, rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness, avenger, vindicator, nemesis, eumenides

V. revenge, avenge, vindicate, take one's revenge, have one's revenge, breathe revenge, breathe vengeance, wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger, have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle, keep the wound green, harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling, bear malice, rankle, rankle in the breast

Adj. revengeful, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus, rankling, immitigable

Phr. manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum, dies irae dies illa, "in high vengeance there is noble scorn", inhumanum verbum est ultio, malevolus animus abditos dentes habet, "now infidel i have thee on the hip"