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