Level D Unit 4 English 9

He hoodwinked everyone by absconding with the prototype shortly after the larceny. He was so pompous that he drove the getaway van over a precipice and incinerated all the evidence.This caused anarchy among the other thieves who could find no auspicious reason for the loss of their most arduous crime. They could find no way to rectify their situation. Although money is an inanimate object some people place far to much value on it.

Abscond to run off and hide

anarchy lack of government or law; confusion

arduous hard to do, requiring much effort

auspicious favorable, fortunate, promising

hoodwink to mislead by trickery, swindle, put one over on, fool

inanimate not having life,

incinerate

Larceny- theft

pompous overly self important stuck on oneself

Precipice 1. a very steep cliff; the brink or the edge of disaster

prototype an original model on which latter versions are patterned

Rectify- to make right, correct