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Lang Arts 8 Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 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 ones own ideas, having a closed mind |
| Perennial | lasting for a long time, persistent; A plant that lives for many years |
| Predispose | To decline 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 | Uncontrolled, lacking restraint |