Quiz: Friday, November 8 Test: Tuesday, November 19

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Level D Unit 4. Quiz: Friday, November 8 Test: Tuesday, November 19. 1. abscond: V – to run off and hide. Synonym: bolt make off skip town . Antonym: NA. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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QUIZ: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8TEST: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Level D Unit 4

1. ABSCOND: V – TO RUN OFF AND HIDE

Synonym: bolt make off skip town

Antonym: NA

2. ACCESS: N – APPROACH OR ADMITTANCE TO PLACES, PERSONS, THINGS; AN INCREASE: V – TO GET AT, OBTAINS

Synonym: N–entry admittance entree

Antonym: N- total exclusion

3. ANARCHY: N- A LACK OF GOVERNMENT AND LAW; CONFUSION

Synonym: chaos disorder turmoil pandemonium

Antonym: law and order

peace and quiet

4. ARDUOUS: ADJ – HARD TO DO, REQUIRING MUCH EFFORT

Synonym: hard difficult laborious fatiguing

Antonym: easy simple effortless

5. AUSPICIOUS: ADJ – FAVORABLE; FORTUNATE

Synonym: promising encouraging

Antonym: ill-omened ominous sinister

6. BIASED: ADJ – FAVORING ONE SIDE UNDULY; PREJUDICED

Synonym: unfair partial bigoted

Antonym: fair impartial unprejudiced just

7. DAUNT: V – TO OVERCOME WITH FEAR, INTIMIDATE; TO DISHEARTEN, DISCOURAGE

Synonym: dismay Antonym: encourage embolden reassure

8. DISENTANGLE: V – TO FREE FROM TANGLES OR COMPLICATIONS

Synonym: unravel unwind unscramble unsnarl

Antonym: tangle up ensnarl snag

9. FATED: ADJ – DETERMINED IN ADVANCE BY DESTINY OR FORTUNE

Synonym: destined preordained doomed

Antonym: accidental chance random

10. HOODWINK: V – TO MISLEAD BY A TRICK, DECEIVE

Synonym: dupe put one over on

Antonym: clue in on be honest to

11. INANIMATE: ADJ – NOT HAVING LIFE; WITHOUT ENERGY OR SPIRIT

Syn: lifeless dead spiritless

Ant: living alive energetic lively sprightly

12. INCINERATE: V – TO BURN TO ASHES Syn: burn up cremate reduce to

ashes

Ant; NA

13. INTREPID: ADJ – VERY BRAVE, FEARLESS, UNSHAKABLE

Syn: valiant

courageous daring

Ant: timid cowardly craven

14. LARCENY: N - THEFT

Syn: stealing robbery

burglary

Ant: NA

15. PLIANT: ADJ – BENDING READILY; EASILY INFLUENCED

Syn: supple flexible elastic plastic

Ant: rigid stiff inflexible sent in

stone

16. POMPOUS: ADJ – OVERLY SELF-IMPORTANT IN SPEECH AND MANNER; EXCESSIVELY STATELY OR CEREMONIOUS Syn: pretentious bombastic

Ant: unpretentious unaffected plain

17. PRECIPICE: N – A VERY STEEP CLIFF; THE BRINK OR EDGE OF DISASTER

Syn: cliff crag bluff ledge

Ant: abyss chasm gorge

18. RECTIFY: V – TO MAKE RIGHT, CORRECT

Syn: remedy set right

Ant: mess up botch bungle

19. REPRIEVE: Noun: a temporary

relief or delay Syn: stay respite Ant: postponement delay

Verb: to grant a postponement Syn: postpone delay Ant: proceed

20. REVILE: V – TO ATTACK WITH WORDS, CALL BAD NAMES

Syn: malign denounce put down

Ant: praise acclaim idolize