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Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 of factions; to bring to such a standstill |
| Diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely; long-winded, unfocused |
| 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 |
| Spasmodic | sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent |
| Spurious | not genuine, not true not valid |
| Unbrindled | uncontrolled, lacking in restraint |
| Adjourn | to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place |
| Comely | having a pleasing appearance |
| Dissolute | loose in one's morals or behavior |
| Feint | (n.) a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; (v.) to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of |
| Fodder | (n.) food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose |
| Fortify | (v.) to strengthen, build up |
| Illegible | (adj.) difficult or impossible to read |
| Lucrative | (adj.) bringing in money; profitable |
| Mediocre | (adj.) average, ordinary, undistinguished |
| Proliferate | (v.) to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly |
| Usurp | (v.) to seize and hold a position by force or without right.(v.) |
| Terminate | (v.) to bring to an end. |
| Trite | (adj.) commonplace; overused, stale. |
| semblance | (n.) a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition. |
| surmount | (v.) to overcome, rise above. |
| pauper | (n.) an extremely poor person. |
| marauder | (n.) a raider, plunderer. |
| eminent | (adj.) famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting. |
| altercation | (n.) an angry argument. |
| condone | (v.) to pardon or overlook. |