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20 Cards in this Set
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To run off and hide; bolt, make off, skip town
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abscond
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approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; to get at, obtain, entry, admittance, entrée
antonym: total exclusion |
access
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a lack of government and law; confusion, chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium
antonym: law and order, peace and quiet |
anarchy
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hard to do, requiring much effort, hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing
antonym: easy, simple, effortless |
arduous
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favorable; fortunate, promising, encouraging, propitious
antonym: ill-omened, ominous, sinister |
auspicious
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favoring one side unduly; prejudiced, unfair, partial, bigoted
antonyms: fair, impartial, unprejudiced, just |
biased
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to overcome with fear, intimidate, to dishearten, discourage, dismay, cow
antonyms: encourage, embolden, reassure |
daunt
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to free from tangles or complications, unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl
antonyms: tangle up, ensnarl, snag |
disentangle
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determined in advance by destiny or fortune, destined, preodained, doomed
antonyms: accidental, fortuitous, chance, random |
fated
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to mislead by a trick, deceive, dupe, put one over on
antonyms: undeceive, disabuse, clue in |
hoodwink
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not having life; without energy or spirit, lifeless, dead, inert, spiritless
antonyms: living, alive, energetic, lively, sprightly |
inanimate
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to burn to ashes, burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes
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incinerate
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very brave, fearless, unshakable, valiant, courageous, audacious, daring
antonyms: timid, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous |
intrepid
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theft, stealing, robbery, burglary
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larceny
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bending readily; easily influenced, supple, flexible, elastic, plastic
antonyms: rigid, stiff, inflexible, set in stone |
pliant
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overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious, pretentious, highfalutin, bombastic
antonyms: unpretentious, unaffected, plain |
pompous
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a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster, cliff, crag, bluff, promontory,ledge
antonyms: abyss, chasm, gorge |
precipice
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to make right, correct, remedy, set right
antonyms: mess up,botch, bungle |
rectify
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a temporary relief or delay; to grant a postponement, stay, respite, postpone, delat
antonym: proceed |
reprieve
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to attack with words, call bad names, inveigh against, malign vilify, denounce
antonyms: praise, acclaim, revere, idolize |
revile
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