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Eng H Voc Unit 1 & 2
Stack #45768
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| admonish | (v) To caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to reming of a duty |
| Breach | (n) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction |
| Breach | (v) to create an opening, break through |
| Brigand | (n) A vbandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman |
| circumspect | (adj) Carefule, cautious |
| Commandeer | (v) to sieze for military of official use |
| Cumbersome | (adj) clumbsy, hard-to-handle; slow-moving |
| Deadlock | (n) A standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions |
| Deadlock | (v) to bring to a standstilll |
| Debris | (n) scattered fragments, wreckage |
| Diffuse | (V) to spread or scatter freely or widely |
| Diffuse | (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 notcied |
| Muddle | (v) to make a mess of; to get by |
| Muddle | (n) a hopeless mess |
| Opinionated | (adj) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind |
| Perennial | (adj) lasting a long time; persistent |
| Perennial | (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 |
| Salvage | (n) property thus saved |
| Spasmodic | (adj) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent |
| Spurious | (adj) not genuine not true, not valid |
| Unbridled | (adj) uncontrolled, lacking in restraint |
| adjourn | (v) to step proceedings temporarily; move to another place |
| Alien | (n) a citizen of a foreign country |
| Alien | (adj) foreign, strange |
| Comely | (adj) having a pleasing appearance |
| Compensate | (v) to make up for; to repay services |
| Dissolute | (adj) loose in one's morals or behavoir |
| 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 |
| Feint | (v) to make a deceptive movement; 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 |
| Jeer | (v) to make fun of rudely or unkindly |
| Jeer | ( n) a rude remark or 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, torment by teasing |
| Terse | (adj) Brief and to the point |
| Unflinching | (adj) firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back |
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ElizabethI
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