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VocabularyWords3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| astound | Amaze, astonish, bewilder, dazzle |
| access | To get at, to get in |
| anarchy | a state of lawlessness and disorder, absence of government |
| arduous | effort to the point of exhaustion, taxing to the utmost, testing powers of endurance, hard to accomplish |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely |
| biased | favoring one person or side over another, prejudice |
| daunt | cause to lose courage, to discourage, intimidate |
| disentangled | free something or someone from knots, unravel |
| fated | decreed, controlled, doomed |
| hoodwink | influence by slyness, bamboozle, deceive by false appearance |
| inanimate | nonliving things, not endowed with life, appearing dead, lacking motion |
| incinerate | burn, become reduced to ashes |
| intrepid | invulnerable to fear or intimidation, fearlessness |
| larceny | the act of taking something from someone unlawfully, a form of theft |
| pliant | |
| pompous | puffed up with vanity, self important, excessively elevated |
| precipice | a very steep cliff, a hazardous situation |
| rectify | abandon a wrong or evil course and adopt a right one, to set straight or right, to correct |
| reprieve | a relief from harm or discomfort, to delay the punishment of |
| revival | bringing again into activity and prominence, renewed attention to or interest in something |