1. Synonyms for Acidulating include embittering, envenoming, alienating, angering, antagonising, antagonizing, poisoning, souring, disaffecting and disillusioning

2. Synonyms for Acerbating include exasperating, aggravating, annoying, disturbing, perturbing, provoking, embittering, rattling one's cage, souring and irritating

3. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives Contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state