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exasperate

verbCommon GRE wordMore E words

to irritate or frustrate someone intensely

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Exasperate in a sentence

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His endless excuses began to exasperate even his patient mentor.

Synonyms
irritateinfuriateannoy
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Questions about “exasperate”

Exasperate (verb) means to irritate or frustrate someone intensely
Here is exasperate used in an example sentence: "His endless excuses began to exasperate even his patient mentor."
Common synonyms for exasperate include irritate, infuriate, annoy.
Antonyms of exasperate include soothe, pacify, calm.
Exasperate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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