Chapter 4 Flashcards

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Access

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A porch or admittance to place, person, things; an increase; to get at obtain

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Abscond

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To run off and hide

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Anarchy

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A lack of government and law; confusion

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Arduous

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Hard to do requiring much effort

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Auspicious

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Favorable, fortunate

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Daunt

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To overcome with fear, intimidate ; to dishearten, discourage

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Disentangle

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To free from tangles or complications

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Fated

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Determined in advance be destiny or fortune

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Hoodwink

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To mislead by a trick, swindle(fool someone )

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Inanimate

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Not having life; without energy or spirit

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Incinerate

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To burn to ashes

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Intrepid

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Very brave, fearless, unshakable

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Larceny

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Theft

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Pliant

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Bending readily; easily influenced

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Pompous

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Overly self important in speech and manner excessively stately or ceremonious

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Precipice

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A very steep cliff the brink or edge of disaster

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Prototype

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An original model on which later versions are patterned

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Rectify

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To make right,

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Reprive

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Stay, respite; delay

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Revile

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To attack with words call bad names