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Unit 1&2 Fresh Vocab
Fresh
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Admonish | (v.) to caution or advice against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
| Breach | (n.) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; (v.) to create an opening. break through |
| Brigand | (n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman |
| Circumspect | (adj.) careful cautious |
| Commandeer | (v.) to seize for military or 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, long-winded, 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; muddle through: 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.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many years |
| predispose | (v.) to incline to beforehand |
| relinquish | (v.) to let go, 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.) lacking in restraint |
| adjourn | (v.) to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place |
| alien | (n.) a citizen or another country; (adj.) foreign, strange |
| comely | (adj.) having a pleasing appearance |
| compensate | (v.) to make up for; to repay for services |
| dissolute | (adj.) loose in one's morals or behaviors |
| erratic | (adj.) not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable |
| expulsion | (n.) the process of driving or forcing out |
| feint | (n.)a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; (v.) to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense |
| fodder | (n.) food or horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose |
| fortify | (v.) to strengthen, build up |
| illegible | (adj.) difficult or impossible to read |
| jeer | (v.) to make fun or rudely or unkindly; (n.) a rude remark of derision |
| lucrative | (adj.) bringing in money; profitable |
| mediocre | (adj.) average, ordinary, undistinguished |
| proliferate | (v.) to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly |
| subjugate | (v.) to conquer by force, bring under complete control |
| sully | (v.) to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch |
| tantalize | (v.) to tease, moment by teasing |
| terse | (adj.) brief and to the point |
| unflinching | (adj.) firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back |
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