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Unit 4 Vocabulary
Mr. Strickland's English 1 - Unit 4 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Abscond | To run off and hide |
Access | Approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; to get at, obtain |
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 stately or ceremonious |
Precipice | A very steep cliff; the brink or edge or 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 |