v .
to urge with annoying persistence ; to trouble 성가시게 고집을 부려 재촉하다 ; 괴롭히다

• "I hate to _____ you once again," said the woman next door, "but may I please borrow some sugar, eggs, mil, flour, butter, jam, and soup?"
• The ceaseless _____ing of her children finally drove Mary Elizabeth over the brink ; she stuffed the entire brood in a canvas bag and pitched it over the railing of the bridge.
  아이들이 끊임없이 졸라대는 통에, 메리 엘리자베스는 마침내 벼랑 끝까지 몰렸다 ; 그녀는 병아리들을 모두 삼베 가방에 집어넣은 뒤 다리 난간 너머로 던져버렸다.
• 형용사는 _____ate
• Leslie's _____ate boyfriend calls her day and night to ask her if she still loves him ; after the hundredth such phone call, she understandably decided that she did not.