Vocab 9

ag·gra·vate: to rouse to displeasure or anger by usually persistent and often petty goading
With the first election that I will be eligible to vote in nearing, I have made a concerted effort to scrutinize all of the presidential candidates, and one of the best means to do so is to watch the televised debate so that you can compare their policies side by side. Unfortunately, this once noble democratic tradition has been trivialized by the advent of the "YouTube Debates". Instead of political experts carefully crafting questions that cannot be easily evaded or deflected, and that give the viewers valuable information about a candidate's ideology, now both the Democratic and the Republican candidates have been forced to endure a barrage of questions from the general public, ranging from the inane, to the downright idiotic. This shameful display of networks pandering to the immature, ill informed, and insipid youth demographic mars the proud history of the presidential debate and disrupts the political process. Needless to say, I find the YouTube debates extremely aggravating.

ad·verse: opposed to one's interests; causing harm.
Allergies to some foods, such as peanuts or shellfish, and some varieties of medicine can cause a person to go into anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction characterized by rapid inflammation of the tissues near where the allergen entered the body, and the constriction of the airways. This adverse reaction can be treated by administering adrenaline (a.k.a. epinephrine) to the victim. People allergic to bees often carry an "EpiPen" with them, a pocket sized syringe containing a dose of adrenaline that could stave off anaphylaxis should they be stung.

dis·in·ter·est·ed: not having the mind or feelings engaged : not interested
I am not going to make a myspace. Stop asking. I am disinterested.

averse: having an active feeling of repugnance or distaste
Aversion therapy is a form of behavioral modification utilizing conditioning techniques in which a habit or activity that is undesirable (like smoking or nail biting) becomes associated with a negative stimulus, usually pain. Whenever the subject of an aversion therapy treatment program has an urge to conduct whatever activity they are attempting to refrain from doing, pain is administered (this can be from something as harmless as snapping a rubber band on your wrist to more extreme measures, such as electrical shocks) until the idea of pain and the activity become indistinguishable, and the subject becomes averse to it.