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TKM Vocab Week 1
Kipp Week 1 Vocab To Kill A Mockingbird
Term | Definition |
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admonish | v...to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
breach | n...an opening, gap, rift, or rupture v...to create and opening; to break through |
brigand | n... a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman |
circumspect | adj... careful; cautious |
commandeer | v... to seize for military of 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 |
diffuse | v... to spread or scatter freely or widely adj... wordy, longwinded, or unfocused; 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; to get by n... a hopeless mess |
opinionated | adj... stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas; having a closed mind |
perennial | adj... lasing for a long time; persistent n... a plant that lives for many years |
predispose | v... to incline beforehand |
relinquish | v... to let go, to 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 genuine, not true, not valid |
unbridled | adj... uncontrolled, lacking in restraint |