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