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Asperity vs Execrate - What's the difference?

asperity | execrate |

As a noun asperity

is roughness as of stone or weather.

As a verb execrate is

to feel loathing for; abhor.

asperity

English

Noun

(asperities)
  • Roughness as of stone or weather.
  • asperity of Maine's winter
  • Harshness, as of temper.
  • * 1878 : :
  • Go, ribald, get you hence
    To your cabin with celerity.
    This is the consequence
    Of ill-advised asperity !
  • Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
  • (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
  • Earthquakes begin and end at asperities .

    execrate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel loathing for; abhor.
  • To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce.
  • (archaic) To invoke a curse.
  • Derived terms

    * execrable * execration * execrative * execratory