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unit #4
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliance | a joining together for some common purpose |
| buffoon | a clown; a coarse, stuiped person |
| dishearten | to discourage |
| hostile | unfriendly; unfavorable; warlike, aggressive |
| inflict | to give or cause something unpleaseant, impose |
| mortify | to hurt someone's feelings deeply; to cause embarrassment or humiliation; to subdue or discipline by self-denial or suffering |
| procure | to obtain through special effort; to bring about |
| sodden | soaked with liquid or moisture; expressionless,dull;spiritless, listless |
| virtual | have a certain force or effect in fact but not in name; so close as to be equivalent to the real thing. |
| wayward | disobedient, willful; unpredictable, capricious1 |