1. Vocabulary Lesson 4 1

2. Abscond
(v.) To run off and hide.
syn: bolt, make off, skip town 2

3. syn: entry, ingress
Access
(n.) approach or admittance to places, persons things; an increase
(v.) To get at,
to obtain 3

4. Anarchy (n.) a lack of government and law; confusion Syn: chaos,
disorder,
turmoil,
pandemonium
Anarchy 4

5. Arduous (adj.) Hard to do, requiring much effort
Syn: hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing
Arduous 5

6. (adj.) favorable; fortunate
Auspicious
(adj.) favorable; fortunate
syn: promising, encouraging, propitious 6

7. Daunt (v.) To overcome with fear, intimidate;
to dishearten, to discourage
syn: dismay, cow 7

8. Disentangle Syn: unscramble, unwind, unsnarl, unravel
(v.) to free from tangle or complications
Syn: unscramble, unwind, unsnarl, unravel 8

9. Fated (adj.) Determined in advance by destiny or fortune
Syn: destined, preordained, doomed 9

10. Hoodwink
(v.) to mislead by a trick, swindle
Syn: fool 10

11. Inanimate (adj.) not having life; without energy or spirit
Syn: dead, spiritless 11

12. Incinerate
(v.) To burn to ashes 12

13. Intrepid
(adj.) Very brave, fearless, unshakeable 13

14. Larceny
(n.) Theft 14

15. Pliant
(n.) Bending readily; easily influenced 15

16. Pompous
(adj.) Overly self-important in speech or manner; excessively stately or ceremonious 16

17. Precipice
(n.) a very steep cliff; brink or edge of disaster 17

18. Prototype (n.) an original model on which later models are patterned.18

19. Rectify
(v.) To make right, correct 19

20. Reprieve
(n.) A temporary relief or delay; (v.) to grant a postponement 20

21. Revile
(v.) To attack with words, call bad names 21