Unit 4 Vocab - Honors English l

Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level D

Abscond

(V.) to run off and hide

Access

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

Abscond

(V.) to run off and hide

Access

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

Anarchy

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

Arduous

(Adj.) hard to do, requiring much effort

Auspicious

(Adj.) favorable, fortunate

Daunt

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

Disentangle

(V.) to free from tangles or complications

Fated

(Adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune

Hoodwink

(V.) to mislead by a trick, swindle

Inanimate

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

Incinerate

(V.) to burn to ashes

Intrepid

(Adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable

Larceny

(N.) theft

Pliant

(Adj.) bending readily: easily influenced

Pompous

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

Precipice

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

Prototype

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

Rectify

(V.) to make right, correct

Reprieve

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

Revile

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