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Grade 9 - Unit 4
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscond | to run off and hide |
| access | admittance to places, persons, or things; to get at or obtain |
| anarchy | lack of government; confusion |
| arduous | hard to do |
| auspicious | favorable;fortunate |
| biased | predjudiced |
| daunt | to overcome with fear |
| disentangle | to free from tangle or complications |
| fated | determined by destiny or fortune |
| hoodwink | to mislead by a trick |
| inanimate | not having life; without energy or spirit |
| incinerate | to burn to ashes |
| intrepid | fearless |
| larceny | theft |
| pliant | bending easily |
| pompous | overly self important; excessively stately or cermonious |
| precipice | very steep cliff; the brink of disaster |
| rectify | to make correct |
| reprieve | a temporary relief or delay; to grant postponment |
| revile | to attack with words or call bad names |