What's the difference between choleric and vexed?

Choleric


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
  • (a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
  • (a.) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Norfloxacin and ofloxacin have the same activities on S. typhi, Salmonella and choleric Vibrio.
  • (2) The immunizing capability of a new anticholera vaccine (choleric anatoxin + vibrios Ogawa and Inaba) was tested on a group of 113 subjects.
  • (3) But even as Turkey is increasingly drawn into the firing line of Syria’s civil war and the region-wide struggle against Sunni Muslim extremism, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s combative and choleric president, remains stubbornly fixated on a wholly different foe – the Kurds .
  • (4) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
  • (5) The process of L-transformation and L-transformed state duration have been studied for their effect on variability of main characters of revertant cultures of choleric vibrions L-forms at the population level with the use of cloned cultures of the choleric vibrions.
  • (6) The water mutters in the pipes; the boiler grumbling cholerically in the basement.
  • (7) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
  • (8) Choleric and melancholic peculiarities were typical of patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis and hypertension.
  • (9) During 1971-1973 anterior to choleric epidemy of 1973, alot of 2680 mussel's specimens were examined with the ACIS 1949 method, of which 60% (1611) favorable and 39.9% (1069) contrary; a single semple presented a S. paratyphi B germ.
  • (10) Greece Approves Sweeping Austerity Measures: 6 May 2010 Choleric scenes in parliament and outrage on the streets as Greece approves sweeping austerity measures aimed at unlocking the multibillion-euro aid package.
  • (11) As a result a strain, the strongest antagonist relative to choleric vibrios and other enteropathogenic microorganisms, is selected.
  • (12) The study was conducted on two strains of the choleric vibrion of the eltor biovar in different periods of storage in the L-transformed state (1, 3, 6 months).
  • (13) Some physico-chemical properties of commercially available neuraminidase preparations from non-choleric vibrio were studied.
  • (14) The strains capable of choleric enterotoxin secretion did not produce cytolysin.
  • (15) The choleric temperament prevailed in angina pectoris.
  • (16) A set of hybrids is obtained synthesizing monoclonal antibodies to the surface antigenic determinants of the choleric vibrio of the Ogava serovar.
  • (17) These patients may also develop a cholereic diarrhea, depending on the size of the ileal resection.
  • (18) The Vibrio cholerae non 01 closely related to the classic choleric vibrio epidemic has acquired worldwide importance during the last decade, with outbreaks of diarrheas, septicemia and other disorders in humans and animals.
  • (19) Medical discoveries, even mistaken ones, have inspired poets and playwrights since the beginning of the written word, from the influential notion that four "humours" (choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic) determined character, to the more metaphorical use made of medicine by poets such as John Donne.
  • (20) With the crowd frothed into a frenzy of righteous choler against the erosion of religious freedom and American exceptionalism by craven liberal politicians and their media lackeys, Ted Cruz summoned a star name to round off the rally: his father.

Vexed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Vex
  • (a.) Annoyed; harassed; troubled.
  • (a.) Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) De Boer's successor's first tasks will be to keep the US aboard the negotiations and to clear up the vexed question of the legal status of the Copenhagen accord , the deal struck at Copenhagen by a small group but not endorsed by a majority of countries.
  • (2) There is also the vexed question of what should be the legal form of any Paris agreement, a subject likely to keep negotiators up late into the night at the conference, and some anxiety among the hosts over whether the text of a deal can be formulated in due time.
  • (3) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
  • (4) Cs (2 mM) reduced diastolic depolarization (DD) at different [Ca]O and in 10.8 mM [Ca]O revealed an oscillatory potential (VOS) and the decay of a prolonged depolarization (Vex).
  • (5) The past few days have been vexing ones for reporting guidelines, voluntary or legal.
  • (6) The present data also highlighted the vexed relationship between stress and seizure control, which needs to be further investigated.
  • (7) Another vexed national question in the coming months will be this one: who is the most worthy winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
  • (8) Delivery of monoclonal antibodies to solid tumors is a vexing problem that must be solved if these antibodies are to realize their promise in therapy.
  • (9) Pathologists without considerable experience in the diagnosis of bone tumors find this question especially vexing.
  • (10) Caffeine (5 mM) abolishes Vos and Ios and increases Vex and Iex (as DOXO does), and adding DOXO slightly increased Vex and Iex.
  • (11) Posttraumatic joint stiffness is particularly vexing in the small joints.
  • (12) In this spirit, a vignette is offered from a clinical area in which questions of "health" and "illness" are particularly vexing at present.
  • (13) Some might argue that our eyes weren't quite on the ball back in '89: never mind the cataclysmic political upheaval in eastern Europe – the results of which still echo around the world – let's devote ourselves to a page concerned with vexed questions such as: why is water wet?
  • (14) The draft provides scant details on the vexed subject of accountability for emission reduction programmes.
  • (15) Nowhere was the commission’s balancing act more finely weighted than on the vexed question of bioenergy, which Cañete admitted was “a clear problem”.
  • (16) The top Chinese negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, said there was also a possibility of advances on the vexed issued of transparency – how to monitor, report and verify each nation's emissions to ensure they are honouring their pledges.
  • (17) But now it’s Isis who are the insurgents,” leaving the peshmerga with the vexing challenge of defending and holding territory.
  • (18) On the vexed issue of longer term finance, the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi presented an offer to reduce developing country demands by 75% to $100bn a year from 2020, in return for guarantees of how the money would be distributed.
  • (19) Discussed here are some contours of the vexing problem of adequate minority participation in the health professions and a brief discussion of some programs that appear to be working.
  • (20) After the creed and some Benjamin Britten, and a blessing and a long round of applause, the man charged with holding together the fractious global Anglican communion as it struggles with the vexed issues of women bishops and same-sex marriage processed out of the cathedral and into the bitterly cold spring afternoon.