Goad vs Aggravation - What's the difference?
goad | aggravation | Related terms |
A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
* Macaulay
To prod with a goad.
To encourage or stimulate.
To incite or provoke.
The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
Exaggerated representation.
An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
Goad is a related term of aggravation.
As nouns the difference between goad and aggravation
is that goad is a long, pointed stick used to prod animals while aggravation is the act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.As a verb goad
is to prod with a goad.goad
English
Noun
(en noun)- The daily goad urging him to the daily toil.
Verb
(en verb)- goading a boy to fight
