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False Rumors That Activists Set Wildfires Exasperate Officials

By Kate Conger, Davey Alba and Mike Baker

Law enforcement agencies said claims on social media that antifascist activists had set fires on the West Coast were unfounded.

In Need of Talk Therapy

Investors were confused when the Fed decided not to curtail its stimulus efforts. Ben Bernanke became exasperated too, James B. Stewart writes.

The reports of my death is greatly exaggerated（有關我死亡的報告太誇張了）”。

這句的創始人是馬克吐溫



Google's Android the Talk of Barcelona
Wall Street Journal
By SHAYNDI RAICE A year after wireless carriers gave Google Inc. a testy reception at their big industry conference in Barcelona, the software company's Android operating system has become the star of the show. Android powers every significant device ...

I was one for a long time, and I know that obscurity and unpopularity are part of the job. Copy editors work late hours and can get testy. They never sign their work.



The ministerial-level negotiations in Beijing yesterday got off to a testy start, with Wu Yi, a vice-premier, complaining that exaggerated US reports about shoddy and unsafe Chinese products had tarnished China. "The US media hyped about the -quality of Chinese exports, causing serious damage to China's national image," she said.

 

Netanyahu Responds Icily to Obama Remarks

By ETHAN BRONNER

The speech prompted Israel's prime minister to push back testily and the Palestinians to call an urgent meeting.

News Analysis

For U.S., Matching Moral and Financial Support for Revolts Proves Difficult

By DAVID E. SANGER

President Obama left open how far the U.S. could go in matching its enthusiasm with concrete steps to support a transformation in the Middle East.

Reaction in Arab Capitals Is Muted and Mixed

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

President Obama's major speech on Middle East policy did not appear to make a deep impression in Arab capitals on Thursday.

The General in His High-Tech Labyrinth 
By BEN BRANTLEY Peter Sellars’s exasperatingly misconceived “Othello” stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago and John Ortiz as the title character.

exasperate
(ĭg-zăs'pə-rāt') tr.v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.

1. To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.
2. To increase the gravity or intensity of: "a scene . . . that exasperates his rose fever and makes him sneeze" (Samuel Beckett).

[Latin exasperāre, exasperāt- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + asperāre, to make rough (from asper, rough).]

exasperatedly ex·as'per·at'ed·ly adv.

exasperater ex·as'per·at'er n.

exasperatingly ex·as'per·at'ing·ly adv.

exasperate

Syllabification: (ex·as·per·ate)

Pronunciation: /igˈzaspəˌrāt/

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verb

[with object]

• irritate intensely; infuriate:this futile process exasperates prison officials (as adjective exasperated)she grew exasperated with his inability to notice anything

Derivatives

exasperatedly

adverb

Origin:

mid 16th century: from Latin exasperat- 'irritated to anger', from the verb exasperare (based on asper 'rough')

testy

(tĕs'tē) 
adj., -ti·er, -ti·est.
Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish: a testy cab driver; a testy refusal to help.

[Alteration of Middle English testif, headstrong, from Old French testu, from teste, head, from Late Latin testa, skull. See teston.]

testily tes'ti·ly adv.
testiness tes'ti·ness n.

WORD HISTORY To the casual eye testy and heady seem to have no connection; a more thoughtful examination reveals that both words refer to the head. The head in heady is easy to see in both the form and meanings of the word. The earliest sense, first recorded in a work composed before 1382, is "headlong, headstrong," which is clearly a "head" sense; but so is the better-known current sense "apt to go to the head, intoxicating." To see the head in testy, we must look back to the Old French word testu, the source of our word. Testu is derived from the Old French word teste, "head" (Modern French tête). In English testy developed another sense, "aggressive, contentious," which passed into the sense we are familiar with, "irritable."