English I Honors Vocabulary 4

Abscond (v.) to run off and hide

Access (n.) approach or admittance to places, persons, things

Anarchy (n.) a lack of government and law; confusion

Arduous (adj.) hard to do, requiring much effort

Auspicious (adj.) favorable; fortunate

Daunt (v.) to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten

Disentangle (v.) to free from tangles or complications

Fated (adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune

Hoodwink (v.) to mislead by a trick, swindle

Inanimate (adj.) not having life; without energy or spirit

Incinerate (v.) to burn to ashes

Intrepid (adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable

Larceny (n.) theft

Pliant (adj.) bending readily; easily influenced

Pompous (adj.) overly self-important in speech and manner

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

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

Rectify (v.) to make right, correct

Reprieve (n.) a temporary relief or delay

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