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Units 4-6
english honors vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscond | to run off and hide |
| access | approach or admittance to places s |
| anarchy | lack of government; confusion |
| arduous | hard to do, requiring much effort |
| auspicious | favorable, fortunate |
| biased | favoring one side unduly, prejudiced |
| daunt | to overcome with fear, intimidate, to dishearten, to discourage |
| disentangle | to free from tangles or complications |
| fated | determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| hoodwink | to mislead by a trick, decieve |
| 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 speeach and manner |
| precipice | a very steep cliff, the brink or edge of disaster |
| rectify | to make right, correct |
| repreive | a temporary relief or delay, to grant postponment |
| revile | to attack with words, to call bad names |
| accomplice | a person who takes part in a crime |
| annihilate | to destroy completely |
| arbitrary | unreasonable, based on ones wishes without regard for reason or fairness |
| brazen | shameless, impudent, made of brass |
| catalyst | a substance that cause or hastens a chemical reaction any agent that causes change |
| exodus | a large scale departure or flight |
| facilitate | to make easier |
| incorrigible | not able to be corrected beyond control |
| latent | hidden, presentbut not realized |
| militant | given to fighting, active and aggressive in support of a cause, an activist |
| morose | having a gloomy or sullen manner |
| opaque | not letting light through, not clear or lucid |
| paramount | above all others, cheif in importance |
| prattle | to talk in an aimless, foolish or simple way, to babble |
| rebut | to offer arguments or evidence |
| reprimand | to scold, find fault with |
| servitude | slavery, forced labor |
| slapdash | careless and hasty |
| stagnant | not running or flowing, standing still |
| succumb | to give way to superior force, yield |
| atone | to make up for |
| bondage | slavery, any state of being bound or held down |
| credible | believable |
| defray | to pay for |
| diligent | hardworking |
| doleful | sad, dreary |
| ghastly | frightful, horrible, deathly pale |
| hamper | to hold back |
| hew | to shape or cut down with an ax, to hold to |
| impoverished | poor, in state of poverty, depleted |
| incessant | never stopping |
| intricate | complicated, difficult to understand |
| lucid | easy to understand, clear rational, sane |
| posthumous | occuring after death |
| prim | overly neat, precise, proper |
| sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess |
| supplant | to make the place of, supersede |
| taunt | to jeer at, mock, an insulting or mocking remark |
| tenacious | holding fast, holding together firmly, persistan |
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