Vocabulary Word of the Day

At the doc office, I was talking about how I wanted to make sure something didn't exacerbate a condition. My hubby said, "you mean exaggerate".  I said, no "exacerbate, as in make something worse?"  He and the nurse both said they never heard that word used before. 

So, I looked it up to see if I was nuts. And it appears I do know what I'm talking about!  

So people, if you are not familiar with this word, take a look and learn:

***ex‧a‧cer‧bate [transitive]

to make a bad situation worse:

The recession has exacerbated this problem.

 I don't want to exacerbate the situation.***

 source: http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/exacerbate