All 6 Uses
taunt
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The Sea of Monsters
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- She taunted one of the bulls into chasing her, then turned invis-ible, completely confusing the monster.†
Chpt 4 *taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
- "You're too stupid to remember anybody," Annabeth taunted.†
Chpt 14
- "You can't kill Nobody, you stupid oaf," she taunted.†
Chpt 14
- Clarisse taunted.†
Chpt 16
- We plummeted toward the docks, but the centaurs hit the asphalt with hardly a jolt and galloped off, whooping and yelling taunts at the Princess Andromeda as we raced into the streets of downtown Miami.†
Chpt 18taunts = (verb) intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone OR (noun) insults or other actions intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- I heard Kronos taunting me from the depths of Tartarus: Polyphemus sits blindly in his cave, young hero, believing he has won a great victory.†
Chpt 20taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
Definitions:
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(1)
(taunt) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults
or (as a noun): an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, taunt can be used as a noun to refer to something said or done to mock, criticize, and/or tease.