Dismay: to cause to lose courage or resolution(as because of alarm or fear) (verb)

Today’s new word is dismay, which I came across while reading a short story called “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, which is basically about a women named Delia who is involved in an abusive relationship and eventually survived when her husband Sykes fell into a death trap that was actually planned for Delia. The word dismay was used on page 273 to describe Delia’s emotion. The author states ” His wife gave a little scream of dismay”, which shows that how Delia lost courage in her relationship with her husband, due to his physically and mentally abusing. However she did gain strength towards the end of the story. I now know how to use dismay in writing and speaking.

-Nayideh R