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vocab unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |