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Friday, January 3, 2014

WORD OF THE DAY: Exacerbate

exacerbate (transitive verb): to make a problem or bad situation even worse

Examples:

The shrieks and squeals of the children exacerbated their grandfather's headache.

"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem." - Shelley Berkeley, former U.S. Representative, Nevada

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