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Unit 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abscond | to run off and hide |
| Access | approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increases- 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 Despite all its inherent dangers, space flight did not |
| Disentangle | to free from tangles or complications |
| Fated | determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| Hoodwink | to mislead by trick, swindle |
| Inanimate | not having life; without energy or spirit |
| Incinerate | to burn to ashes |
| Intrepid | very brave, fearless, unshakable |
| Larceny | theft |
| Pilant | bending readily; easily influenced |
| Pompous | overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremoniuos |
| Precipice | a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of 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 |