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Word of the Day for Thursday, August 7, 2008asperity \as-PAIR-uh-tee\, noun: 1. Roughness of surface; unevenness. The separation wave probes all the rocks in its path, moving forward until it hits another asperity or fault bend, whereupon it abruptly stops. Many years later, when I was sketching in Rome, a grim-looking Englishwoman came up to me and said with some asperity, "I see you are painting MY view." She spoke with great authority, with an asperity that didn't allow for sentimental accountings or ideological projections. Asperity comes from Latin asperitas, from asper, "rough." It is related to exasperate, "to irritate in a high degree," from ex- (here used intensively) + asperatus, past participle of asperare, "to roughen," from asper. | |||||||||
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