ALIENATION (noun)
Definition:
a.(SEPARATION) the feeling that you have no connection with the people around you.
Example:
a. Depressed people frequently feel a sense of alienation from those around them.
Definition:
b. (LOSS OF SUPPORT) the act of making someone stop supporting and agreeing with you.
Example:
b. This short-sighted alienation of their own supporters may lose them the election.
BARRICADE (noun)
Definition:
a line or pile of objects put together, often quickly, to stop people from going where they want to go.
Example:
Inmates erected a barricade between themselves and the prison guards.
ENRAGE (verb)
Definition:
to cause someone to become very angry.
Example:
He was enraged at the article about him.
HOSTILITY (noun)
Definition:
a. (UNFRIENDLINESS) an occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not agree with or like something.
Example:
a. They showed open hostility to their new neighbors.
Definition:
b. (FIGHTING) fighting in a war.
Example:
b. Hostilities were suspended (= fighting stopped temporarily) during the talks.
CONTRIVE (verb)
Definition:
a. to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning.
Example:
a. Couldn't you contrive a meeting between them? I think they'd be ideally suited.
Definition:
b. to invent and/or make a device or other object in a clever and possibly unusual way:
Example:
b. Do you think you could contrive something for hanging my clothes on until I can get a wardrobe?
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