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pique

n. tightly woven fabric with raised cords

piqué

n. step in which the dancer steps onto the tip of the toe without bending the knee

irritation, temper

n. a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood"

offend

v. cause to feel resentment or indignation; "Her tactless remark offended me"

twill, corded, twilled

adj. of textiles; having parallel raised lines

outrage, indignation

n. a feeling of righteous anger

bitterness, gall, resentment, rancor, rancour

n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

fury, rage, madness

n. a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

scene, fit, tantrum

n. a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene"

passion, passionateness

n. strong feeling or emotion

fire, arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle

v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

displease, be offensive to

v. give displeasure to

needle, goad, nettle

v. goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"

trouble, disquiet, disorder, unhinge, perturb, derange, cark, distract

v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"

rag, bother, devil, nark, nettle, gravel, irritate, mortify, get to, get at, rile, annoy, vex

v. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

intrigue, fascinate

v. cause to be interested or curious

madden, drive crazy, drive mad, drive nuts

v. drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves

peeve

v. cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful

excite, arouse a feeling

v. arouse or elicit a feeling

shake, stir, stimulate, excite, shake up

v. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"

tickle, titillate

v. excite pleasurably or erotically; "A titillating story appeared in the usually conservative magazine"

interest, cause to be interested

v. excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of

entrance, capture, charm, trance, bewitch, enchant, enamour, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, fascinate

v. attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts"

torment, rag, dun, bedevil, tantalize, frustrate, crucify

v. treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

invite, tempt

v. give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers"

raise, arouse, bring up, invoke, call forth, put forward, conjure up, call down

v. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

trip, trigger, spark, activate, set off, actuate, spark off, trigger off, touch off

v. put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"

abrasive, scratchy

adj. causing abrasion

cracked, alligatored

adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide

barky

adj. resembling the rough bark of a tree; "the rattlesnake's barky scales"

broken, rugged

adj. topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"

bullate

adj. of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered

jarring, bumpy, jolting, jolty

adj. covered with or full of bumps; "a bumpy country road"

cracked, chapped, roughened

adj. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips"

coarse

adj. "coarse skin"; "coarse woolens"

corduroy

adj. made of corduroy fabric

corduroy, log

adj. (of roads) made of logs laid down crosswise: "a corduroy road"

corrugated

adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"

ribbed, costate

adj. (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture

craggy, mountainous, cragged, hilly

adj. having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"

crude, rude

adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

crushed

adj. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"

lined, furrowed, seamed

adj. (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face"

grooved, canaliculate

adj. having thin parallel channels; "canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants"

homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy

adj. of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"

imbricate, imbricated

adj. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles

scaly, scabrous, leprose, scabby, scurfy

adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf

pocked, potholed, pot-holed

adj. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits

wrinkled, puckered, wrinkly

adj. marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled cheeks"

rocky, stony, bouldery, bouldered

adj. abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"

roughish

adj. somewhat rough

rugose

adj. of leaves; ridged or wrinkled

rutted, rutty

adj. full of ruts; "rutty farm roads"

textured, rough-textured

adj. having surface roughness; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed"

unsmooth

adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

verrucose, warty

adj. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts

anger, ire, choler

n. a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance

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