A Word

A is for asperity

My good friends - they have no idea who I am - over at A Word A Day decided to help me out for week 2 of the As and assign an A word as today's word. The word is asperity which they claim comes from the Latin asper meaning rough, which, I'm sure you don't know, is the same Latin root from which the term Asperger's Syndrome originates. And that is one rough syndrome, so the connection is clear. Asperity means harshness or roughness. Do not confuse this word with the similar word, aspery, which means resembling or exhibiting qualities of Asperger's Syndrome.
Try to use either of these words (or both!) in a sentence today. Here are some examples to get you started:
Lining my pants with sandpaper has resulted in an asperity that is causing blood to drip down my leg and onto the floor.
Avoiding eye contact with people directly in front of him and fixating instead on the bubbles in the water cooler, my co-worker seems a little aspery today.
The child's aspery behavior in the restaurant grated with great asperity on all of my senses.
Alright, that's enough, now think of your own.

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