| A | B |
|---|
| auspicious | promising, encouraging, propitious |
| pompous | pretentious, highfalutin, bombastic |
| reprieve | to postpone, to delay; a stay respite |
| biased | prejudiced, unfair, partial, bigoted |
| hoodwink | to deceive, dupe, put on over on |
| pliant | supple, flexible, elastic, plastic |
| daunt | to intimidate, dismay, cow, discourage |
| fated | doomed, destined, preordained |
| abscond | to bold, make off, skip town |
| precipice | a cliff, crag, bluff, promontory; a brink, ledge |
| disentangle | to unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl |
| inanimate | lifeless, dead; inert, spiritless |
| rectify | to correct, remedy, set right |
| arduous | hard, difficult, laborious, fatiguing |
| revile | inveigh against, malign, vilify, denounce |
| anarchy | chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium |
| incinerate | to burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes |
| larceny | stealing, robbery, theft, burglary |
| access | entry, admittance, entree |
| intrepid | valiant, courageous, audacious, daring |
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