Chapter 4 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Access
A porch or admittance to place, person, things; an increase; to get at obtain
Abscond
To run off and hide
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
Disentangle
To free from tangles or complications
Fated
Determined in advance be destiny or fortune
Hoodwink
To mislead by a trick, swindle(fool someone )
Inanimate
Not having life; without energy or spirit
Incinerate
To burn to ashes
Intrepid
Very brave, fearless, unshakable
Larceny
Theft
Pliant
Bending readily; easily influenced
Pompous
Overly self important in speech and manner excessively stately or ceremonious
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
Reprive
Stay, respite; delay
Revile
To attack with words call bad names