| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| exacerbating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exasperating |
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| exacerbation | (noun) violent and bitter exasperation | - |
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| (noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: aggravation |
| exact | (adjective) marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: accurate, precise |
| (adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
| exacta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order | Synonyms: perfecta |
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| exacting | (adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: fastidious |
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| (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exigent |
| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: stern, strict |
| exactingness | (noun) the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding. | - |
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| exaction | (noun) act of demanding or levying by force or authority | - |
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| exactitude | (noun) the quality of being exact | Synonyms: exactness |
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| exactly | (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: just, precisely, properly |
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| (adverb) in a precise manner | Synonyms: incisively, precisely |
| (adverb) just as it should be | Synonyms: on the button, on the dot, on the nose, precisely |
| exactness | (noun) the quality of being exact | Synonyms: exactitude |
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