Vocabulary Words and Meaning

Cursed

a. An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.

b. The evil or misfortune that comes in or as if in response to such an appeal: bewailed the curse of ill health.

c. One that is accursed.

d. A source or cause of evil; a scourge: "Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race" (William Ewart Gladstone).

e. A profane word or phrase; a swearword.

Derision

a. Ridicule; mockery: The inept performance elicited derision from the audience.

b. an object of mockery or scorn

Disgust

a. To excite nausea or loathing in; sicken.

b. To offend the taste or moral sense of; repel.

Synonyms: disgust, nauseate, repel, revolt, sicken

These verbs mean to offend the senses or feelings of: a stench that disgusted us; hypocrisy that nauseated me; repelled by your arrogance; brutality that revolts my sensibilities; a fetid odor that sickened the workers.

Endeavored

Noun;

a. A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt.

b. Purposeful or industrious activity; enterprise.

Verb

en·deav·ored, en·deav·or·ing, en·deav·ors .

To attempt (fulfillment of a responsibility or an obligation, for example) by employment or expenditure of effort: endeavored to improve the quality of life in the inner city.

Exasperated

a. To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.

b. To increase the gravity or intensity of: "a scene . . . that exasperates his rose fever and makes him sneeze" (Samuel Beckett).

Fleet

Noun;

a. A number of warships operating together under one command.

b. A group of vessels or vehicles, such as taxicabs or fishing boats, owned or operated as a unit.

Verb; fleet·ed, fleet·ing, fleets

Verb. intr;

1. To move or pass swiftly.

2. To fade out; vanish.

3. Archaic; to flow.

4. Obsolete; to drift.

v.tr.

1. To cause (time) to pass quickly.

2. Nautical To alter the position of (tackle or rope, for example).

Hay

a. Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and...