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Unit 4 Definitions
Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Alliance | A joining together for some common purpose |
Bewilder | To puzzle completely confuse |
Buffoon | A clown; a coarse; stupid person |
Controversial | Arousing argument; dispute or disagreement |
Dishearten | To discourage |
Fruitless | Not producing the desired results; unsuccessful |
Hostile | Unfriendly; unfavorable; warlike aggressive |
Inflammable | Easily set on fire; easily angered or aroused |
Inflict | To give or cause something unpleasant, impose |
Malignant | Deadly, extremely harmful evil; spiteful malicious |
Mortify | To hurt someone's feelings deeply; to cause embarrassment or humiliation; To subdue or discipline by self-denial or suffering |
Orthodox | In an agreement with established or generally accepted beliefs or ways of doing things |
Procure | To obtain through special effort; to bring about |
Scurry | To run quickly, scamper, hurry |
Sodden | Soaked with moisture or liquid; expressionless, dull; spiritless listless |
Spirted | Full of life and vigor; couragous |
Virtual | Having a certain force or effect in fact but not in name; so close as to be equivalent to the real thing |
Void | Completely empty; having no legal force or effect empty or unfilled space to cancel or nullify |
Wayward | Disobedient willful; unpredictable capricious |
Wince | To draw back suddenly, as though in pain or fear The act of drawing back in this way |