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vexation
What does vexation mean?
vexation (noun): a source of mental distress or trouble; an affliction, a woe; also, a source of annoyance or irritation; an annoyance, an irritant.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use vexation in a sentence?
- Free yourself of sadness, vexation, and fear! (Tatoeba sentence #12300552 by Miktsoanit, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce vexation?
/vɛkˈseɪʃən/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
What are synonyms of vexation?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “vexation” mean?
a source of mental distress or trouble; an affliction, a woe; also, a source of annoyance or irritation; an annoyance, an irritant
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a statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself
Not quite: that's what credo means.
a familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others) that is descriptive
Not quite: that's what sobriquet means.
that which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious
Not quite: that's what interpolation means.
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