- abscond: to run off and hide
- access: approach or admittance to places, persons, things, an increase, to get at, obtain
- anarchy: a lack of government and law, confusion
- arduous: hard to do, requiring much effort
- auspicious: favorable, fortunate
- biased: favoring on side unduly, prejudiced
- daunt: to overcome with few, intimidate, to dishearten, discourage
- disentangle: to free from tangles or complications
- fated: determined in advance by destiny or fortune
- hoodwink: to mislead by trick, decieve
- inanimate: not having life, without energy of spirit
- incinerate: to burn to ashes
- intrepid: very brave, fearless, unshakable
- larceny: theft
- pliant: bending readily, easily influenced
- pompous: overly self-important in speech and manner
- precipice: a very steep cliff, the brink or edge of disaster
- rectify: to make right, correct
- reprieve: a temporary relief of delay
- revile: to attack with words, call bad names