• awkward, embarrassing, grating, sticky, uneasy, untoward
• to afflict, to agonize, to bully, to crucify, to discommode, to hag, to harry, to lacerate, to obsess, to pain, to rack, to torment, to torture
• acute, excessive, excruciating, grinding, obsessive, outrageous, racking, tormentor, troublesome
• to bid, bade, bidden, to bid, bid, to offer, to proffer
• to agonize, to anguish, to be on the rack, to labor, to labour, to suffer agonies
• white alloy, white metal