Quite often parents have to cut a sorry figure when their children display fractious reaction over trifles.

Answer: Option D

Pleasing : satisfying or appealing.
Absurd : wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate.
Comic causing or meant to cause laughter.
Irritable : having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed.
Fractious : (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome.

Synonym of Fractious is Irritable