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Mr Hance
Term | Definition |
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Abscond | (V) to run off and hide |
Access | (N) approach or admittance to places,persons,things,an increase; (v) to get at, obtain |
Anarchy | (N) a lack of government and law; confusion |
Arduous | (Adj) hard to do, requiring much effort |
Auspicious | (Adj) favorable; fortunate |
Biased | (Adj) favoring one side unduly; prejudice |
Daunt | (V) to overcome with fear, intimidate, to dishearten, discourage |
Disentangle | (V) to free from tangles or complications |
Fated | (Adj) determined in advance by density or fortune |
Hoodwink | (V) to mislead by a trick, deceive |
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; excessively stately or ceremonious |
Precipice | (N) a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster |
Rectify | (V) to make right, correct |
Reprieve | (N) a temporary relief or delay; (v) to grant a postponement |
Revive | (V) to attack with words, call bad names |