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121attrition — n 1. friction, rubbing, rubbing against; abrasion, whetting, sanding, pumicing, grinding, filing, chafing, fraying, fretting, corrosion, corroding, gnawing, eating out or away, consumption, consuming, devouring; scraping, scrape, excoriation,… …
122exacerbation — n 1. aggravation, intensification, heightening, deepening, sharpening, worsening. 2. embittering, envenoming, acerbating, galling, rankling, souring, poisoning. 3. exasperation, exasperating, ruffling, chafing, putting out; angering, infuriating …
123exasperation — n 1. provocation, fomentation, incitement, incitation, instigation, excitation, agitation, inflammation, deliberate aggravation; provoking, fomenting, inciting, instigating, agitating, inflaming; infuriation, enragement; infuriating, angering. 2 …
124provocative — I Sl. shot in the arm; stimulation, animation, invigoration, motivation, galvanization, inspiration, vivification, rallying, enlivening, livening up, awakening, waking up, shaking up, reviving; promotion, lurtherance, advancement, advance;… …
125huffish — adj 1. irritable, out of sorts, snappish, snappy, curt, short, impatient; touchy, testy, thin skinned, waspish, peevish, petulant; cross, irascible, choleric, ill tempered, ill humored, splenetic; crabby, crabbed, cranky, grouchy, grumpy,… …
126irksome — adj irritating, annoying, vexing, vexatious, Inf. aggravating; bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, hectoring, harassing; troubling, troublesome, distressing, painful; worrying, worrisome, Archaic. plaguy; tiring, tiresome,… …
127irritating — adj 1. provoking, agitating, inflaming, inflammatory, enflaming, kindling; inciting, igniting, instigating. 2. angering, incensing, irksome, irking; maddening, infuriating, enraging; exacerbating, rankling, galling, embittering. 3. nettlesome,… …
128mortifying — adj 1. humiliating, humbling; shameful, disgraceful, Obs. reproachful; disreputable, disfavorable, discreditable. 2. belittling, derogatory, deprecatory, disparaging, depreciatory, demeaning, deflating. 3. confusing, perplexing, bewildering,… …
