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Oh yes, nerve wracking is two words.
The correct term is "nerve-wracking." It means something that causes anxiety or tension.
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The adjective is spelled "nerve-wracking" (but also seen as nerve-racking).It is either from the variant wrack meaning to wreck, or rack as in the torture rack, which is seen in the idiom to rack one's brain (to stretch or exert).
The word superb rhymes with nerve
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It is technically either.But the word form used in the US vernacular is to "wrack" one's brain (or brains). The word wrack is a variant of "wreck", to ruin or destroy.This causes the dichotomy in "nerve-racking" and "nerve-wracking" : the US use tends toward the wracking as in wrecking, but racking can apply to torture as in stretching on a rack.(see related question)
It varies from person to person, I had both done and felt neither of them at all, lip was somehow more nerve wracking
warring, warlike, bloody, terrifying, deadly, horrifying, blood-curdling, bone-chilling, eerie, nerve-wracking, etc.
nerve, serve, preserve, curve,
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