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| to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution |
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| subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion |
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| requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult |
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| to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender |
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| extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless |
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| promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable |
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| pertaining to or of the nature of autocracy or of an autocrat; absolute |
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| joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful |
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| subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic |
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| a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge |
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| cowardly; contemptibly timid |
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| capable of being believed; believable |
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| going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty |
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| to overcome with fear; intimidate |
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| showing deference; deferent; respectful. |
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| to bear or pay all or part of |
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| without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter. |
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| constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything |
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| to free (a person) from deception or error |
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| sorrowful; mournful; melancholy |
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| excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please |
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| happening or produced by chance; accidental |
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| to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder |
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| continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending: an incessant noise |
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| not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform |
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| lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished |
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| having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful |
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| resolutely fearless; dauntless |
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| present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential |
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| easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible |
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| gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood |
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| firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty |
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| performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial |
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| characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance |
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| to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble |
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| making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious |
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| presenting favorable conditions |
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| to delay the impending punishment or sentence of |
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| to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure. |
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| to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively |
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| characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering |
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| to give way to superior force; yield |
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| to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like |
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| bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible |
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| holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold |
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| fierce; cruel; savagely brutal |
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| to speak ill of; defame; slander |
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