Vocab 4s

Question 1

abscond

Answer 1

to depart in a sudden or secret manner, to avoid capture and legal persecution

Question 2

access

Answer 2

ability, right, permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use, admittance, to locate (data) for transfer

Question 3

anarchy

Answer 3

1. a state of society without government or law
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control
3. confusion, chaos, disorder

Question 4

arduous

Answer 4

1. requiring great exertion, laborious, difficult
2. requiring or using energy and vigor strenuous
3. hard to climb, steep
4. hard to endure, full hardships

Question 5

biased

Answer 5

having or showing bias or prejudice

Question 6

daunt

Answer 6

1. to overcome fear intimidate

2. to lessen the courage of, dishearten

Question 7

disentangle

Answer 7

to free or become free from entanglement, untangle, extricate

Question 8

fated

Answer 8

subject to, guided by, or predetermined by fate, destined

Question 9

hoodwink

Answer 9

to deceive or trick

Question 10

inanimate

Answer 10

1. not animate, lifeless

2. spiritless, sluggish, dull

Question 11

incinerate

Answer 11

to burn or reduce to ashes, cremate

Question 12

intrepid

Answer 12

resolutely fearless, dauntless

Question 13

larceny

Answer 13

the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker’s own use

Question 14

pliant

Answer 14

1. bending readily, flexible, supple, adaptable

2. easily influenced, yielding to others

Question 15

pompous

Answer 15

1. characterized by ostentatious display of dignity or importance
2. ostentatiously lofty or high-flown
3. characterized by pomp, stately splendor, or magnificence

Question 16

precipice

Answer 16

1. a cliff with a vertical, overhaning face

2. a situation of great peril

Question 17

rectify

Answer 17

1. to make, put, or set right, remedy, or correct

2. to put right by adjusting calculation, as an instrument or a course at sea

Question 18

reprieve

Answer 18

1. to delay the impending punishment
2. to relive temporarily from any evil
3. a respite from impending punishment, as from execution of a sentence of death

Question 19

revile

Answer 19

1. to assail with contemptous or opprobrious language, address or speak of abusively
2. to speak abusively

Question 20

suspicious

Answer 20

1. tending to cause or excite suspicion, questionable
2. inclined to suspect, inclined to support evil, distrustful
3. full of or feeling suspicion
4. expressing or indicating suspicion