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Abscond
(v.) to run off and hide
SYN: bolt, make off, skip town
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Access
(n.) approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; (v.) to get, obtain
- SYN:(n.) entry, ingress
- ANT:(n.) total exclusion
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Anarchy
(n.) lack of government and law; confusion
- SYN: chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium
- ANT: law & order, peace & 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; fortunate
- SYN: promising, encouraging, propitious
- ANT: ill-omened, sinister
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Daunt
(v.) to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage
- SYN: dismay, cow
- ANT: encourage, embolden, reassure
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Disentangle
(v.) to free from tangles or complications
- SYN: unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl
- ANT: tangle up, ensnarl, random
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Fated
(adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune
- SYN: destined, preordained, doom
- ANT: fortuitous, chance, random
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Hoodwink
(v.) to mislead by a trick, swindle
- SYN: put one over on, fool
- ANT: disabuse
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Inanimate
(adj.) not having life; without energy or spirit
- SYN: dead, spiritless
- ANT: living, alive, energetic, sprightly
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Incinerate
(v.) to burn to ashes
SYN: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes
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Intrepid
(adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable
- SYN: valiant, audacious, daring
- ANT: timid, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous
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Larceny
(n.) theft
SYN: stealing, robbery
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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: highfalutin, bombastic
- ANT: unpretentious, plain
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Precipice
(n.) a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster
- SYN: crag, bluff, ledge
- ANT: abyss, chasm, gorge
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Prototype
(n.) an original model on which later versions are patterned
- SYN: example, sample
- ANT: copy
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Rectify
(v.) to make right, correct
- SYN: set right
- ANT: mess up, botch bungle
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Reprieve
(n.) a temporary relief or delay; (v.) to grant a postponement
- SYN: (n.) stay, respite; (v.) delay
- ANT: (v.) proceed
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Revile
(v.) to attack with words, call bad names
- SYN: inveigh, against, malign, vilify
- ANT: praise, acclaim, revere, idolize
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