Vocabulary Word
Word: fraught
Definition: filled (with something unpleasant); full; Ex. fraught with danger and difficulties; CF. freight
Definition: filled (with something unpleasant); full; Ex. fraught with danger and difficulties; CF. freight
Sentences Containing 'fraught'
``My English brother Solomon,''mourned Miss Pross, casting up her tear fraught eyes,``that had the makings in him of one of the best and greatest of men in his native country, an official among foreigners, and such foreigners!
``Nothing is ever so firmly impressed on the mind as the memory of our early childhood, and with the exception of the two scenes I have just described to you, all my earliest reminiscences are fraught with deepest sadness.''
The remembrance of that life is fraught with so much pain to me, with so much mental suffering and want of hope, that I have never had the courage even to examine how long I was doomed to lead it.
Mr. Larkins (a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, and one of his eyes immovable in his head) is fraught with interest to me.
The last thing I saw was Littimer's unruffled eye; fraught, as I fancied, with the silent conviction that I was very young indeed.
At last, arrayed for the purpose at a vast expense, I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.
The topic is fraught with such danger to the bonnet, that Miss Lavinia gives another little scream, and begs me to understand that Dora is only to be looked at, and on no account to be touched.
E., Post Office, Canterbury, will be fraught with less painful consequences than any addressed immediately to one, who subscribes herself, in extreme distress, 'Mr. Thomas Traddles's respectful friend and suppliant, 'EMMA MICAWBER.'
The feeling with which I used to watch the tramps, as they came into the town on those wet evenings, at dusk, and limped past, with their bundles drooping over their shoulders at the ends of sticks, came freshly back to me; fraught, as then, with the smell of damp earth, and wet leaves and briar, and the sensation of the very airs that blew upon me in my own toilsome journey.
More Vocab Words
::: wistful - sadly thoughtful (because of desires or memories); sadly pensive; vaguely longing::: prescience - ability to foretell the future; knowledge of actions before they occur; ADJ. prescient
::: ambiguous - unclear or doubtful in meaning; having more than one possible interpretation
::: semblance - outward appearance; guise; Ex. We called in the troops to bring a/some semblance of order to the city.
::: egregious - notorious; conspicuously bad or shocking
::: exacerbate - worsen; aggravate; embitter
::: debilitate - weaken (esp. through heat, hunger, illness); enfeeble
::: retroactive - taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax); (of a law) having effect on the past as well as the future
::: inflated - exaggerated; pompous; enlarged (with air or gas)
::: decry - express strong disapproval of; condemn openly (something dangerous to the public); disparage; Ex. decry the violence of modern films
