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Vocabulary: irritation and annoyance

To irritate/ irritating/ irritability

Tiresome/ irksome/ vexing

A vexation/ to vex  = to irritate; annoy; provoke.

A humiliation: a feeling of great embarrassment because of a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity // to hurt sb/ to offend sb: to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in; to insult. 

            He's so irritating!                                         He's visibly vexed!

                                                       ... ruffled by adversity

- To be in a (bad) temper/ to be bad-tempered.

- To be in a foul temper.

- To have a quick temper/ to be quick-tempered.

- To fly into a temper: to fly into a rage.

- To have a hot temper/ to be hot-tempered: easily angered.

- To have a nasty temper/ a vile temper.

- He's exasperatingly slow! 

- To get sb's goat/ to get on sb's nerves.

- To get hot under the collar: angry, upset. 

- To lose patience with somebody (to lose, I lost, lost).

- To try sb's patience/ to try sb: to put to a severe test.

- To raise sb's hackles: to cause anger and resentment.

- To get into a huff: to get into a mood of held back anger; a fit of resentment. 

                                           : to get on his nerves...

I hope you'll stay calm for the test...  , which shouldn't puzzle you too much!

Go for it and thanks for working with me! 

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1. 'Kyle can be tryinghot-temperedindignantI don't know at times, but he calms down rapidly. He’s not a bad guy after all.'



2. 'Hurry up, Judy, you’re ruffledexasperatingly slowdissatisfiedI don't know to eat, and I won't wait for you. Too bad! I’m going.'



3. 'I can’t stand it. You’ve been rufflingtryingbadgeringI don't know my patience for too long. Enough is enough.'



4. 'His stupid arguments really tend to get into a hufffly into a temperraise my hacklesI don't know. I’ve had enough and would rather leave. Bye!'



5. The situation was so vexingtiresomelytouchyI don't know that she quickly lost her temper and made a real scandal.



6. She keeps pesteringrufflingdissatisfyingI don't know me with her daily problems though I can do nothing to help her.



7. Her parents were greatly touchydispleased within a huffI don't know the rude words she was yelling at their friends.



8. When she heard what the man was saying, Sally had a vile temperflew into a tempergot his goatI don't know and broke everything around her.



9. 'No, I don't want to take her shopping! She is a real nuisancebad temperhot under the collarI don't know and she will spoil my afternoon! '



10. 'He's so badgeringruffledexasperatingI don't know that I refuse to work in the same team. He's really unbearable! '