Vocabulary Lesson 4 1

Abscond (v.) To run off and hide. syn: bolt, make off, skip town 2

syn: entry, ingress Access (n.) approach or admittance to places, persons things; an increase (v.) To get at, to obtain 3

Anarchy (n.) a lack of government and law; confusion Syn: chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium Anarchy 4

Arduous (adj.) Hard to do, requiring much effort Syn: hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing Arduous 5

(adj.) favorable; fortunate Auspicious (adj.) favorable; fortunate syn: promising, encouraging, propitious 6

Daunt (v.) To overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, to discourage syn: dismay, cow 7

Disentangle Syn: unscramble, unwind, unsnarl, unravel (v.) to free from tangle or complications Syn: unscramble, unwind, unsnarl, unravel 8

Fated (adj.) Determined in advance by destiny or fortune Syn: destined, preordained, doomed 9

Hoodwink (v.) to mislead by a trick, swindle Syn: fool 10

Inanimate (adj.) not having life; without energy or spirit Syn: dead, spiritless 11

Incinerate (v.) To burn to ashes 12

Intrepid (adj.) Very brave, fearless, unshakeable 13

Larceny (n.) Theft 14

Pliant (n.) Bending readily; easily influenced 15

Pompous (adj.) Overly self-important in speech or manner; excessively stately or ceremonious 16

Precipice (n.) a very steep cliff; brink or edge of disaster 17

Prototype (n.) an original model on which later models are patterned. 18

Rectify (v.) To make right, correct 19

Reprieve (n.) A temporary relief or delay; (v.) to grant a postponement 20

Revile (v.) To attack with words, call bad names 21