Adjective

Definition: complaining in an annoyed way

I  found this on page 26 of “Reading Lucy.”

In the text, “querulous” was one of the difficult words that Lucy would use in her letters to Alfred. She put the definitions of words like that in case Alfred didn’t know what it meant. I didn’t know what it meant until now because the definition wasn’t in the text.

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/querulous