1. Abscond: (v) to run off and hide
After committing a crime, smart criminals attempt to abscond from the scene.

2. Access: (n) approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; (v) to get at, obtain

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

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

5. Auspicious: (adj.) favorable; fortunate

6. Daunt: (v) to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage
Rebuilding New Orleans was a daunting task.
Fighting the dragon daunted the blue knight.

7. Disentangle: (v) to free from tangles or complications
The snakes are trying to literally disentangle themselves.
Richard Nixon was unable to disentangle himself from a web of lies .

8. Fated: (adj.) Determined in advance by destiny or fortune
Some felt that McCain was fated to lose the election due to his associations with George W. Bush.
In the movie Meet Joe Black, Anthony Hopkins’ character is fated to die.

9. Hoodwink: (v) to mislead by a trick, deceive

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

11. Incinerate: (v) to burn to ashes
Syn: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes

12. Intrepid: (adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable
Syn: valiant, audacious, daring
Ant: timid, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous

13. Larceny: (n) theft
Syn: stealing, robbery

14. Pliant: (adj.) bending readily; easily influenced
Syn: supple, flexible, elastic, plastic
Ant: rigid, stiff, inflexible,
set in stone

15. Pompous: (adj.) overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious
Syn: highfalutin, bombastic
Ant: unpretentious, plain

16. Precipice: (n) very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster
Syn: crag, bluff, ledge
Ant: abyss, chasm, gorge

17. Prototype – (n) an original model on which later versions are patterned
Syn: example, sample
Ant: copy

18. Rectify: (v) to make right; correct
Syn: set right
Ant: mess up, botch, bungle

19. Reprieve: (n) a temporary relief or delay; (v) to grant a postponement
Syn: (n) stay, respite; (v) delay
Ant: (v) proceed

20. Revile: (v) to attack with words; call bad names
Syn: inveigh against, malign, vilify Ant: praise, acclaim, revere, idolize