What's the difference between cark and vexation?

Cark


Definition:

  • (n.) A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
  • (v. i.) To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.
  • (v. t.) To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ramsey Cark, a former US attorney general, who lead the defence of Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, said the unanimous verdicts were a travesty of justice and that there would be an appeal.

Vexation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.
  • (n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.
  • (n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can be critical of the no quality of the performance, the naive mistakes sometimes but not in front of the goal.” He would admit vexation at the result.
  • (2) Along the way his deployment of Ki Sung-yueng as a deep-lying, smooth-passing, ball-retaining, central midfielder left Yaya Touré a study in vexation.
  • (3) For his part, Evelyn never concealed the boredom and vexation Bron caused him.
  • (4) Gametocytes from 2 experimentally infected lizards were infective to L. vexator during the course of the acute infection.
  • (5) As Texans, it is a particular vexation that this president's attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt, particularly in decisions relating to the Nasa budget and the energy sector.
  • (6) Patients with a hysterical personality structure who are dominated by Oedipus or phallic problems and who, by inhibiting the sexual impulse, frequently suffer from sexual disorders may, in a situation experienced in such an atmosphere of conflict, regress to the stage of urethral erotism; at this stage, the symptoms serve as self-punishment as well as reduction of the fear of guilt and punishment; the unconscious vexation and frustration manifest themselves in these symptoms.
  • (7) It is suggested that the vexator series of the subgenus originated in the Nearctic Region and extended southwards along the Andes (peruensis series) whereas the oswaldoi series is a South American assemblage originating in Gondowana.
  • (8) A "hassle index" identified three dimensions of vexation in practice: problems with running a practice, medical conditions of patients, and social characteristics of patients.
  • (9) Labour MP Simon Danczuk recently tweeted his vexation after encountering “beggars” close to a pub: “Begging – counted 4 beggars between Rochdale Exchange & Wheatsheaf entrances last Tuesday.
  • (10) She makes a face that is a mixture of diligence and vexation – she was eating plenty of fruit and vegetables already.
  • (11) Adams doesn’t like the quotidian routine of small vexations that make up a political career; he likes the big game, and he has played it well in sidelining the nationalist rival the SDLP .
  • (12) Transmission studies carried out in the laboratory incriminated Phlebotomus vexator occidentis as a vector of a species of trypanosome that infects Bufo boreas halophilus.

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