riled

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Here I am saying the very thing I was so riled with Rachel Lynde for saying at the Aid today. — Anne of Green Gables, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Someday when you get riled up ... and people with hair like yours are desperate apt to get riled ... you’ll forget all your pretty little notions and give some of them a whaling. — Anne of Avonlea, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Tortured by the growling of his well-built stomach, Ned Land was getting more and more riled, and despite his word of honor, I was in real dread of an explosion when he stood in the presence of one of the men on board. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

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

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