Goad vs Affront - What's the difference?
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A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
* Macaulay
To prod with a goad.
To encourage or stimulate.
To incite or provoke.
To insult intentionally, especially openly.
* Addison
To meet defiantly; to confront.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
* Holland
* Shakespeare
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
Goad is a related term of affront.
As nouns the difference between goad and affront
is that goad is a long, pointed stick used to prod animals while affront is .As a verb goad
is to prod with a goad.goad
English
Noun
(en noun)- The daily goad urging him to the daily toil.
Verb
(en verb)- goading a boy to fight
See also
* goatAnagrams
*affront
English
(wikipedia affront)Verb
(en verb)- How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
- to affront death
- Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
- All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
- That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Such behavior is an affront to society.