Vocab 4&5
Terms
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- abscond
- to run off and hide
- access
- entry, admittance, apporach
- anarchy
- a lack of government and law, confusion
- arduous
- hard to do, requiring much effort
- auspicious
- favorable, promising
- biased
- favoring one side unduly, prejudiced
- daunt
- to overcome with fear, intimidate, discourage
- disentangle
- to free from tangles or complications
- fated
- determined in advanced by destiny or fourtune
- hoodwink
- to mislead by a trick
- inanimate
- not having life, without energy or spirit
- incinerate
- to burn to ashes
- intrepid
- very brave, fearless, unshakable
- larceny
- theft
- pliant
- bending readily, easily influenced
- pompous
- overly self-important in speech and manner, bombastic
- precipice
- a very steep cliff, the brink or edge of disaster
- rectify
- to make right, correct
- reprieve
- a temporary relif or delay, to grant a postponement
- revile
- to attack with words, call bad names
- accomplice
- a person who takes part in a crime
- annihilate
- to destroy completely
- arbitrary
- unreasonabloe, based on one's wished or whims without regard for reason or fairness
- brazen
- shamelessness, impudent, made of brass, bold, saucy
- catalyst
- a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction, that causes change
- exodus
- a large-scale departure or flight
- facilitate
- to make easier, to assist
- incorrigible
- not able to be corrected, beyond control
- latent
- hidden, prsent but not realized
- militant
- given to fighting active, and agressive in support of a cause, activist
- morose
- having a gloomy or sullen manner, NOT SOCIABLE
- opaque
- not letting light through, dense
- paramount
- chief in importance, above all others
- prattle
- chatty, talking aimlessly,babble
- rebut
- to offer arguements or eveidence that contradicts an assertion to frefute, disprove
- reprimand
- to scold
- servitude
- slavery, forced labor
- slapdash
- carless and hasty
- stagnant
- not running or flowing, foul from standing still, inactive
- succumb
- to give way to superior force, yeild