Unit 4 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Approach or admittance to places, persons, things and increase, to get at, obtain

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Access

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To run off and hide

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Abscond

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A lack of government and law, confusion

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Anarchy

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Hard to do, requiring much effort

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Arduous

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Favorable, fortunate

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Auspicious

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To overcome with fear, intimidate, to dishearten, discourage

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Daunt

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To free from tangles or complications

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Disentangle

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Determined in advance by destiny or fortune

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Fated

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To mislead by a trick, swindel

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Hoodwink

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Not having life, without energy or spirit

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Inanimate

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To burn to ashes

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Incinerate

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Very brave, fearless, unshakeable

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Intrepid

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Theft

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Larceny

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Bending readily, easily influenced

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Pliant

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Overly self important in speech and manner, excessively stately or ceremonious

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Pompous

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A very steep cliff, the brink or edge of disaster

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Precipice

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An original model on which later versions are patterned

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Prototype

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To make right, correct

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Rectify

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A Temperary relief or delay, to grant postponement

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Reprieve

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O attack with words, call bad names

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Revile