Illude

illude
verb, transitive. To trick, to delude. From the Latin illudere “to mock”

She sat at her aging computer and fumed. Things had come to a pretty pass, hadn’t they? She was more annoyed with herself than with anyone or anything else. The bright promise of technology had proved to be a cruel bait-and-switch for one who lived so far outside urban areas. She had allowed it to illude her into thinking she could start and run a profitable business in her living room, while wearing a caftan and a pair of flip-flops. She should have known better. For the twenty years she had lived here, the electronic “hole” of her location had been a given: the sheriff’s radio didn’t even work here. She was lucky she was able to get satellite television. Thinking she could get 4G LTE service from a wireless internet provider was--and would remain--a dream.

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.