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A Separate Peace
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- I didn't want to add to his humiliations; I even sympathized with his trembling, goaded egotism he could no longer contain, the furious arrogance which sprang out now at the mere hint of opposition from someone he had at last found whom he could consider inferior to himself.†
p. 78.9goaded = provoked or prodded
Definitions:
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(1)
(goad) to provoke or annoy someone into doing something—often something unwise
or:
to prod an animal to move, or the stick used to do so - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)