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English Vocab 1
vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty | admonish |
| an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through | breach |
| to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty | admonish |
| an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through | breach |
| a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman | brigand |
| careful, cautious | circumspect |
| to seize for military or official use | commandeer |
| clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving | cumbersome |
| a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; to bring to such a standstill | deadlock |
| scattered fragments, wreckage | debris |
| to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread | diffuse |
| a difficult or perplexing situation or problem | dilemma |
| to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed | efface |
| to make a mess of; muddle through:to get by; a hopeless mess | muddle |
| stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind | opinionated |
| lasting for a long time, persistent; a plant that lives for many years | perennial |
| to incline to beforehand | predispose |
| to let go, give up | relinquish |
| to save from fire or shipwreck; property thus saved | salvage |
| sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent | spasmodic |
| not genuine, not true, not valid | spurious |
| lacking in restraint | unbridled |