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Unit 4 Vocabulary
Vocabulary Workshop Unit 4 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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.) favourable; fortunate |
| Daunt | (v.) to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage |
| Disentangle | (v.) to free from tangles or complications |
| Fated | (adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| Hoodwink | (v.) to mislead by a trick, swindle |
| 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 ceremoniuos |
| Precipice | (n.) a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster |
| Prototype | (n.) an original model on which later versions are patterned |
| Rectify | (v.) to make right, correct |
| Reprieve | (n.) a temporary relief or delay (v.) to grant a postponement |
| Revile | (v.) to attack with words, call bad names |