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111vexation — Synonyms and related words: abomination, affliction, aggravation, agitation, all overs, angst, annoyance, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness,… …
112zeal — Synonyms and related words: abandon, acquiescence, agitation, agreeability, agreeableness, alacrity, all overs, amenability, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness,… …
113zealous — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, ablaze, acquiescent, afire, agitated, agreeable, alacritous, all overish, amenable, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, ardent, assiduous, avid, boiling over, bothered, breathless, buggy, bugs, burning,… …
114bustle — I. v. n. Fuss, stir about, busy one s self, be active, be busy, bestir one s self, make a fuss, be in a fidget, be in a pucker (colloq.), be in a stew, make much ado about trifles or about nothing. II. n. 1. Stir, fuss, hurry, flurry, tumult,… …
115agitated — adj 1. uneasy, ill at ease, restless, restive, shaky, jumpy, nervous, twitchy, jittery, fidgety. 2. disturbed, perturbed, distracted, unsettled, disquieted, discomposed, ruffled, flustered; aquiver, atwitter, wrought up, worked up, in an uproar,… …
116agitation — n 1. arousal, excitation, fomentation, suscitation, inflammation; demagoguery, rabble rousing, agitprop; incitement, instigation, provocation. 2. turbulence, turmoil, storm, upheaval, chaos; tumult, uproar, commotion, ado, to do, hubbub, bother,… …
117bother — v 1. pester, hector, harass, Sl. bug, Sl. hassle, Sl. drive [s.o.] nuts or crazy or bananas, Sl. drive [s.o.] up a wall; hound, dog, nag, pick on, pick at, be on [s.o. s] back, Inf. give [s.o.] a hard time, Sl. ride; torment, taunt, bedevil,… …
118fuss — n 1. fluster, flurry, dither, twitter, fret, bother, pother, Inf. stew, Inf. tizzy, Archaic. pucker; commotion, agitation, disquiet, unrest, stir, much ado about nothing, tempest in a teapot, Inf. foofaraw, Inf. to do, Sl. flap, Sl. hoo ha. 2.… …
119ill-humored — adj 1. irritable, out of sorts, snappish, snappy, huffish, huffy, curt, short, impatient; piqued, in a pique, in a fume, Archaic. in a pucker, Inf. in a stew; touchy, testy, thin skinned, waspish, peevish, petulant; cross, irascible, choleric,… …
120ill-tempered — adj ill humored, cross, irascible, choleric, splenetic; crabby, crabbed, cranky, grouchy, grumpy, cantankerous, crotchety, crusty; irritable, touchy, testy, thin skinned, waspish, peevish, petulant; moody, sulky, sullen, dour, gloomy, sullen,… …
