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Vocab # 1
Language Arts Vocabulary Words 081209
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Admonish | To caution or advise against something;To scold mildly;To remind of 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 fractions. 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 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 | Uncontrolled, lacking in restraint. |