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Felicia set aside pails of them but selected only one, a mother-of-pearl shell, a baroque Spanish fan with which later to taunt her suitors.†
Chpt 1.1

taunt = (verb) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults OR (noun) an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
"So the woman of the house is a fighter?" the tall soldier taunted.†
Chpt 1.5 *

taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
"Everyone knows your husband doesn't love you because you're so jealous," Loli taunts.†
Chpt 2.8

taunts = (verb) intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone OR (noun) insults or other actions intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
"Go join him in Siberia!" they taunted.†
Chpt 2.10

taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
Lourdes taunted the journalists who questioned her last year about the opening-day fracas at the second Yankee Doodle Bakery.†
Chpt 2.12

Definitions:

(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.