Unit 4 vocab

Abscond

to run off and hide, verb

Access

approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; to get at, obtain, noun

Anarchy

a lack of government and law; confusion, noun

Arduous

hard to do, requiring much effort, adjective

Auspicious

favorable, fortunate, adjective

Biased

favoring one side unduly; prejudiced, adjective

Daunt

to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage, verb

Disentangle

To free from tangles or complications, verb

Fated

determined in advance by destiny or fortune, adjective

Hoodwink

To mislead by a trick, swindle, verb

Inanimate

not having life; without energy or spirit, adjective

Incinerate

to burn to ashes, verb

Intrepid

very brave, fearless, unshakable, adjective

Larceny

theft, noun

Pliant

bending readily; easily influenced, adjective

Pompous

overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious, adjective

precipice

a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster, noun

rectify

to make right, correct, verb

Reprieve

a temporary relief or delay; to grant a postponement,noun

Revile

to attack with words, call bad names,verb