Make Your Point, Jr. > Words in ABC Order > irritate

Study the words IRRITATE, IRRITATING, & IRRITABLE: (Source) When a cheap soap or a wool sweater irritates your skin, it turns your skin red or itchy. When spicy pepperoni irritates your stomach, it makes your stomach hurt. (Source) And when something irritates you, it bothers you and annoys you: you don't like it, it gets on your nerves, or it makes you feel mad. It makes you want to go "Ugh!" For example, flies or other bugs might irritate you, especially if they're landing on your food or swarming around your face. That's so irritating! (Source) If your computer keeps freezing up or erasing your progress, you might feel irritated. If someone keeps asking you the same question over and over, you might feel irritated. (Source) If you have to wait for a long time, you might feel irritated. If someone cuts in front of you in line, you probably feel irritated. And if people keep bumping into you and stepping on your feet, you definitely feel irritated. You might make an irritated face, or make an irritated sound in your throat. Urrrrrgh. (Source) If you're trying to watch a movie and the people around you keep talking loudly, then their behavior is irritating, and you are irritated. (Source) Everybody gets irritated now and then. We all feel irritation, and we all sometimes sigh in irritation: ugh. (Source) If you're feeling easily irritated, then you're in an irritable mood. You're being irritable, meaning you get mad or impatient really easily. Maybe you're irritable when you're hungry, or when you're sad or tired. When your friends or your parents or teachers seem irritable, try to be patient and kind to them. Or bring them a snack! Maybe their irritable mood will pass. (Source)   Make a flash card: You can write your own definition and choose your own picture, or copy mine. Term Definition Picture irritate to bug someone or bother someone   Write your own sentence! You can use any of the ideas I'll suggest, or you can invent your own. Include as much detail as you can! (Source)   Write a sentence with the word IRRITATE, IRRITATING, or IRRITABLE: Remember: irritating things are annoying and bothersome, making you lose your patience. And irritated people are annoyed and bothered, losing their patience. Finally, irritable people are always annoyed, easily bothered, constantly losing their patience. Idea 1: "It irritates me when (something happens)." Idea 2: "It's so irritating when I'm trying to (do something)—but (something keeps happening)." Idea 3: "I was tired and irritable after (doing something hard or annoying) for (some long length of time)." You can type in here. When you're done, copy and paste your sentence wherever you'd like it to go.