asperity: severity of tone, manner, or temper; roughness; harshness

asperity ------ roughness, severity; bitterness or tartness

asperity ------ sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter

asperity ------severity; harshness; irritability

asperity ------ biting in whit-negative

asperity ------ sharpness (of temper)

These remarks, spoken with asperity, stung the boys to whom they had been directed.

asperity ------ harshness; roughness

asperity-----sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter

12 apserity <> mildness

asperity n.嚴(yán)酷, 粗暴, 刻薄

839. asperity

depth

mildness

imprecision

leisure

indifference

粗魯(艱苦)

深度

溫和

不精確

閑暇

無動(dòng)于衷，冷漠

Answer

asperity<>mildness of temper 嚴(yán)酷<>脾氣溫和

asperity roughness harshness ill temper irritability

Synonyms: harshness, sharpness

The asperity with which she spoke revealed her anger about the situation.

The man used asperity to frighten the girl out of going.

The asperity of the winter had most everybody yearning for spring.

新GRE詞匯是構(gòu)成整個(gè)考試的基礎(chǔ)，搞定新GRE詞匯的捷徑只有一條，那就是不斷的重復(fù)，用最普通最簡(jiǎn)單最基本的方法實(shí)現(xiàn)最高的目標(biāo)。