Vocabulary Unit 4

20 cards·by clairew17

Abscond

to run off and hide

Access

approach or admittance to places, persons, things.

Anarchy

a lack of government and law; confusion

Arduous

hard to do, requiring much effort

Auspicious

favorable; fortunate

Daunt

to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage

Disentangle

to free from tangles or complications

Fated

determined in advance by destiny or fortune

Hoodwink

to mislead by a trick, swindle

Inanimate

not having life; without energy or spirit

Incinerate

to burn to ashes

Intrepid

very brave, fearless, unshakable

Larceny

theft

Pliant

bending readily; easily influenced

Pompous

overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively

Precipice

a very steep cliff; the brick or edge of disaster

Prototype

an original model on which later versions are patterned

Rectify

to make right, correct

Reprieve

a temporary relief or delay; to grant a postponement

Revile

to attack with words, call bad names