Week 1 - Day 2 - Part 1

Front 1

Abscond

Back 1

To run off and hide

Hint 1

This thieves who absconed with several of the museum's most valuable paintings have never been found.

Front 2

Anarchy

Back 2

A lack of government and law; confusion

Hint 2

In the final day of a war, civilians may find themselves living in anarchy.

Front 3

Arduous

Back 3

Hard to do; requiring much effort

Hint 3

No matter how carefully you plan it, moving to a new home is an arduous chore.

Front 4

Auspicious

Back 4

Favourable; fortunate

Hint 4

My parents describe the day that they met as the most auspicious occasion.

Front 5

Daunt

Back 5

To overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage

Hint 5

Despite all its inherent dangers, space flight did not daunt the Mercury program astronauts.

Front 6

Disentangle

Back 6

To free from tangles or complications

Hint 6

Rescuers worked for hours to disentangle a whale from the fishing net wrapped arounds its jaws.

Front 7

Hoodwink

Back 7

To mislead by a trick; deceive

Hint 7

Many sweepstakes offers hoodwink people into thinking they have already won big prizes.

Front 8

Intrepid

Back 8

Very brave; fearless; unshakable

Hint 8

Intrepid sailors in outrigger canoes were the first humans to reach the Hawaiian Island.

Front 9

Larceny

Back 9

Theft

Hint 9

Someone who steals property that is worth thousands of dollars commits grand larceny.

Front 10

Pliant

Back 10

Bending readily; easily influenced

Hint 10

The pliant branches of the sapling sagged but did not break under the weight of the heavy snow

Front 11

Pompous

Back 11

Overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious

Hint 11

Political cartoonists like nothing better than to mock pompous public officials.

Front 12

Precipice

Back 12

A very steep cliff; the brink of edge of disaster.

Hint 12

Dring the Cubian missile crisis, the world hovered on the precipice of nuclear war.

Front 13

Rectify

Back 13

To make right; correct

Hint 13

The senators debated a series of measures designed to rectify the national's trade imbalance

Front 14

Reprieve

Back 14

(n) A temporary relief or delay; (v) to grand a postponement

Hint 14

A vacation is a kind of reprieve from the cares and responsibilities of everyday life.

Front 15

Revile

Back 15

To attack with words, call bad names

Hint 15

The enraged King Lear reviled the daughters who have cast him out into a fierce storm.