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Unit 4 Definitions
Definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |