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Monday Muddle: exacerbate, exasperate
exacerbate: (verb) to make a negative situation worse; to increase the severity of a problem; to aggravate (a situation); to complicate exasperate: (verb) to cause someone to lose patience; to frustrate; to aggravate (a person); to irritate; to annoy