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Unit 4
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English
9th Grade
01/13/2014

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Term
Abscond
Definition

(v.) tot run off and hide

Synonyms: bolt, make off, skip town

 

Term
Access
Definition

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

Synonyms: (n.) entry, admittance, entree

Antonyms: (n.) total exclusion

Term
Anarchy
Definition

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

Synonyms: chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium

Antonyms: law and order, peace and quiet

Term
Arduous
Definition

(adj.) hard to do, requiring much effort

Synonyms: hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing

Antonyms: easy, simple, effortless

Term
Auspicious
Definition

(adj.)  favorable; fortunate

Synonyms: promising, encouraging, propitious

Antonyms: ill-omened, ominous, sinister

Term
Biased
Definition

(adj.) favoring one side unduly; prejudiced

Synonyms: unfair, partial, bigoted

Antonyms: fair, impartial, unprejudiced, just

Term
Daunt
Definition

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

Synonyms: dismay, cow

Antonyms: encourage, embolden, reassure

Term
Disentangle
Definition

(v.) to free from tangles or complications

Synonyms: unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl

Antonyms: tangle up, ensnarl, snag

Term
Fated
Definition

(adj.) determined advance by destiny or fortune

Synonyms: destined, preordained, doomed

Antonyms: accidental, fortuitous, chance, random

Term
Hoodwink
Definition

(v.) to mislead by a trick, deceive

Synonyms: dupe, put one over on

Antonyms: undeceive, disabuse, clue in

Term
Inanimate
Definition

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

Synonyms: lifeless, dead, inert, spiritless

Antonyms: living, alive, energetic, lively, sprightly

Term
Incinerate
Definition

(v.) to burn to ashes

Synonyms: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes

 

Term
Intrepid
Definition

(adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable

Synonyms: valiant, courageous, audacious, daring

Antonyms: timid, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous

Term
Larceny
Definition

(n.) theft

Synonyms: stealing, robbery, burglary

Term
Pliant
Definition

(adj.) bending readily; easily influcenced 

Synonyms: supple, flexible, elastic, plastic

Antonyms: rigid, stiff, inflexible, set in stone

Term
Pompous
Definition

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

Synonyms: pretentious, highfalutin, bobastic

Antonyms: unpretentious, unaffected, plain

Term
Precipice
Definition

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

Synonyms: cliff, crag, bluff, promontory, ledge

Antonyms: abyss, chasm, gorge

Term
rectify
Definition

(v.) to make right, correct

synonyms: remedy, set right

antonyms: mess up, botch, bungle

Term
reprieve
Definition

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

synonyms: (n.) stay, respite; (v.) postpone, delay

antonyms: (v.) proceed

Term
revile
Definition

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

synonyms: inveigh against, malign, vilify, denounce

antonyms: praise, acclaim, revere, idolize

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