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Abscond
- V: to run off and hide
- Syn: bolt, make off, skip town
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Access
- Noun: approach or admittence to places, persons, things; an increase
- Verb: to get at, obtain
- Syn: entry, admittence, entrée
- Ant: total exclusion
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Anarchy
- Noun: lack of govmt and law; confusion
- Syn: chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium
- Ant: law and order, peace and quiet
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Arduous
- Adj: hard to do, requiring much effort
- Syn: hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing
- Ant: easy, simple, effortless
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Auspicious
- Adj: favorable; fortuanate
- Syn: promising, encouraging, propituous
- Ant: il-omened; ominous, sinister
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Biased
- Adj: favoring one side unduly; prejudiced
- Syn: unfair, partial, bigoted
- Ant: fair, impartial, unprejudiced, just
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Daunt
- Verb: to overcome with fear, intimidate; to disheaten, discourage
- Syn: dismay, cow
- Ant: encourage, embolden, reassure
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Disentangle
- Verb: to free from tangles or complications
- Syn: unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl
- Ant: tangle up, ensnarl, snag
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Fated
- Adj: determined in advance by destiny or fortune
- Syn: destined, preordained, doomed
- Ant: accidental, fortuitous, chance, random
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Hoodwink
- Verb: to mislead by a trick, decieve
- Syn: dupe, put one over on
- Ant: undecieve, disabuse, clue in
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Inanimate
- Adj: not having life; without energy or spirit
- Syn: lifeless, dead, inert, spiritless
- Ant: living, alive, energetic, lively, sprightly
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Incinerate
- Verb: burn to ashes
- Syn: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes
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Intrepid
- Adj: very brave, fearless, unshakable
- Syn: valiant, courageous, audacious, daring
- Ant: timid, cowardly, craven, pussilanimous
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Larceny
- Noun: theft
- Syn: stealing, robbery, burglary
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Pliant
- Adj: bending readily; easily influenced
- Syn: supple, flexible, elastic, plastic
- Ant: rigid, stiff, inflexible, set in stone
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Pompous
- Adj: overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious
- Syn: pretentious, highfalutin, bombastic
- Ant: unpretentious, unaffected, plain
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Precipice
- Noun: a very steep cliff; thr brink or edge of a disaster
- Syn: cliff, crag, bluff, promontory, ledge
- Ant: abyss, chasm, gorge
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Rectify
- Verb: to make right
- Syn: remedy, set right
- Ant: mess up, botch, bungle
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Reprieve
- Noun: a temporary relief or delay
- Verb: to grant a postponement
- Syn: stay, respite; postpone, delay
- Ant: proceed
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Revile
- Verb: to attack with words, call bad names
- Syn: inveigh against, malign, vilify, denounce
- Ant: praise, acclaim, revere, idolize
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