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Vocabulary # One
Twenty words!
| 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 twoequal forces or fractions; to bring to such a standstill |
| Debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
| Diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widlly; wordy, longj-winded, or widely spread |
| Dilemma | a difficult or perplexing situation or problem |
| Efface | to wipeout; to keep oneself from being noticed |
| Muddle | to make a mess of; 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 for many years |
| Predispose | to incline to beforehand |
| Relinquish | to let go, to 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 | uncontrolloed, lacking in restraint |