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vocab unit 1
Question | Answer |
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Admonish | to caution or advise against something |
Breach | an opening, gap, rupture, rift, violation or infraction |
Brigand | robber, highwaymen, outlaw, bandit |
Circumspect | cautious careful |
Commandeer | to seize for military use |
Cumbersome | clumsy hard to handle |
Deadlock | to bring to a standstill |
debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
diffuse | to spread or scatter widely or freely |
dilemma | difficult or perplexing situation or problem |
efface | to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
muddle | to make a mess of; to get by |
opinionated | stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to ones own ideas, having a closed mind |
perennial | lasting a long time, persistent |
predisposed | to incline beforehand |
relinquish | to let go, give up |
salvage | to save from fire or shipwreck; property thus saved |
spasmodic | sudden and violent but brief |
spurious | not genuine not valid and not true |
unbridled | uncontrolled, lacking in restraint |