Affront ( page 24 ).
Questions.
1. What is it to affront? 2. How does affront compare with insult? with tease? annoy?
Examples.
It is safer to —— some people than to oblige them; for the better a man deserves, the worse they will speak of him.
Oh, rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches —— the brain.
The petty desire to —— is simply a perversion of the human love of power.
They rushed to meet the —— foe.