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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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adverb

in a way that is correct and exact; without error

She measured the ingredients accurately to ensure the cake turned out perfectly.

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exasperate

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/Used In Literature ↓

To tax the patience of, irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.

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Poetry examples for exasperate

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

seventeenth-century poet, professedly a partisan, on matters of church

and state, no longer exasperate, and can barely even interest, students

of literature.

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