Unit 4 - Sadlier Connect Vocabulary Workshop Level D

English

Abscond

(v.) to run off and hide

synonyms: bolt, make off, skip town

Access

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

Synonyms: (n.) entry, ingress

Anarchy

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

Synonyms: chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium

Arduous

(adj.) hard to do, requiring much effort

Synonyms: hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing

Auspicious

(adj.) favorable; fortunate

Synonyms: promising, encouraging, propitious

Daunt

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

Synonyms: dismay, cow

Disentangle

(v.) to free from tangles or complications

Synonyms: unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl

Fated

(adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune

Synonyms: destined, preordained, doomed

Hoodwink

(v.) to mislead by a trick; swindle

Synonyms: put one over on, fool

Inanimate

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

Synonyms: dead, spiritless

Incinerate

(v.) to burn to ashes

Synonyms: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes

Intrepid

(adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable

Synonyms: valiant, audacious, daring

Larceny

(n.) theft

Synonyms: stealing, robbery

Pliant

(adj.) bending readily; easily influenced

Synonyms: supple, flexible, elastic, plastic

Pompous

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

Synonyms: highfalutin, bombastic

Precipice

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

Synonyms: crag, bluff, ledge

Prototype

(n.) an original model in which later versions are patterned

Synonyms: example, sample

Rectify

(v.) to make right, correct

Synonyms: set right

Reprieve

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

Synonyms: (n.) stay, respite; (v.) delay

Revile

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

Synonyms: inveigh against, malign, vilify