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Unit4
English vocab Unit 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscond | to run off and hide |
| access | approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase |
| anarchy | a lack of government and law; 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 |
| disentangle | to free from tangles or complications |
| fated | determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| hoodwink | to misleadby a trick; decieve |
| inanimate | not having life; without energy or spirit |
| incinerate | to burn to ashes |
| intrepid | very brave, fearless, unshaken |
| larceny | theft |
| pliant | bending readily; easily influenced |
| pompous | overly self-important in speechs and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious |
| precipice | a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster |
| rectify | to make right, correct |
| repreive | a temporary relief or delay; to grant a postponement |
| revile | to attack with words, call bad names |