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Unit 1 Vocabulary
Mr. Strickland's English 1 - Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Admonish | To caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
Breach | An opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through |
Brigand | A bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman |
Circumspect | Careful, cautious |
Commandeer | To seize for military or official use |
Cumbersome | Clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving |
Deadlock | A standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; to bring to such a standstill |
Debris | Scattered fragments, wreckage |
Diffuse | To spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread |
Dilemma | A difficult or perplexing situation or problem |
Efface | To wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
Muddle | To make a mess of; muddle through: to get by: a hopeless mess |
Opinionated | Stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind |
Perennial | Lasting for a long time, persistent; a plant that lives for many years |
Predispose | To incline to beforehand |
Relinquish | To let go, give up |
Salvage | To save from fire or shipwreck; property thus saved |
Spasmodic | Sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent |
Spurious | Not genuine, not true, not valid |
Unbridled | Lacking in restraint |