Sadlier Connect - Level D | Unit 4

(v.) abscond

to run off and hide

access (n.)

approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase

access (v.)

to get at, obtain

(n.) anarchy

a lack of government and law; confusion

(n.) arduous

hard to do, requiring much effort

(adj.) auspicious

favorable; fortunate

(v.) daunt

to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage

(v.) disentangle

to free from tangles or complications

(adj.) fated

determined in advance by destiny or fortune

(v.) hoodwink

to mislead by a trick, deceive

(adj.) inanimate

not having life; without energy or spirit

(v.) incinerate

to burn to ashes

(adj.) intrepid

fearless

(n.) larceny

theft

(adj.) pilant

bending readily; easily influenced

(adj.) pompous

overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious

(n.) precipice

a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster

(n.) prototype

an original model on which later versions are patterned

(v.) rectify

to make right, correct

(n.) reprieve

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

(v) reprieve

to grant a postponement

(v.) revile

to attack with words, call bad names