Unit 4 English Vocab

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

Antonym: (n.) total exclusion

anarchy

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

Synonyms: chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemo

Antonyms: law and order, peace and quiet

arducous

(adj.) hard to do, requiring much effort

Synonyms: hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing

Antonyms: easy, simple, effortless

auspicious

(adj.) favorable; fortune

Synonyms: promising, encouraging, propitious

Antonyms: ill-omened, sinister

daunt

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

Synonyms: dismay, cow

Antonyms: encourage, embolden, reassure

disentangle

(v.) to free from tangles or complications

Synonyms: unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl

Antonyms: tangle up, ensnarl, snag

fated

(adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune

Synonyms: destined, preordained, doomed

Antonyms: fortuitous, chance, random

hoodwink

(v.) to mislead by a trick, swindle

Synonyms: put one over one, fool

Antonym: disabuse

inanimate

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

Synonyms: dead, spiritless

Antonyms: living, alive, energetic, sprightly

incinerate

(v.) to burn to ashes

Synonyms: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes

intrepid

(adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable

Synonyms: valiant, audacious, daring

Antonyms: timid, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous

larceny

(n.) theft

Synonyms: stealing, robbery

pilant

(adj.) bending readily; easily influenced

Synonyms: supple, flexible, elastic, plastic

Antonyms: rigid, stiff, inflexible, set in stone

pompous

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

Synonyms: highfalutin, bombastic

Antonyms: unpretentious, plain

precipice

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

Synonyms: crag, bluff, ledge

Antonyms: abyss, chasm, gorge

prototype

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

Synonyms: example, sample

Antonym: copy

rectify

(v.) to make right, correct.

Synonym: set right

Antonyms: mess up, botch, bungle

reprieve

(n.) a temporary relief or delay;

(v) to grant a postponement.

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

Antonym: (v.) proceed

revile

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

Synonyms: inveigh against, malign, vilify

Antonyms: praise, acclaim, revere, idolize