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Irk

Noun CEFR C2
ɜːk

Definitions

  1. An annoyance.
  2. A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell in Manchester city centre.

Equivalents

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العربيةأتعب
Българскибезпокоя
Magyarbosszant
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Portuguêsaborrecer
Русскийраздражать

Examples

The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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