Vocabulary Unit 4 Word list

1. abscond: (v) to run off and hide.

2. access: (n) approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; (v) to get at, obtain.

3. anarchy: (n) a lack of government and law; confusion.

4. arduous: (adj) hard to do, requiring much effort.

5. auspicious: (adj) favorable; fortunate.

6. biased: (adj) favoring one side unduly; prejudiced.

7. daunt: (v) to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage.

8. disentangle: (v) to fee from tangles or complications.

9. fated: (adj) determined in advance destiny or fortune.

10. hoodwink: (v) to mislead by a trick, deceive.

11. inanimate: (adj) not having life; without energy or spirit.

12. incinerate: (v) to burn to ashes.

13. intrepid: (adj) very brave, fearless, unshakable.

14. larceny: (n) theft.

15. pliant: (adj) bending readily; easily influenced.

16. pompous: (adj) overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious.

17. precipice: (n) a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster.

18. rectify: (v) to make right, correct.

19. reprieve: (n) a temporary relief or delay; (v) to grant a postponement.

20. revile: (v) to attack with words, call bad names.