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