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Vocabulary D
Level D Unit 1
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| admonish | to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
| syn. warn, call on the carpet | admonish |
| ant. praise, pat on the back | admonish |
| breach | an opening, gap, rupture, fift; 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 two equal forces or factions; to bring to a standstill |
| debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
| diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, longwinded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread |
| dilemma | a 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; 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, 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 | uncontrolled, lacking in restraint |
| syn: make susceptible to | predispose |
| syn: rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam | debris |
| ant; cinch | dilemma |
| ant; open-minded, reasonable | opinionated |
| ant; brief, short-lived, fleeting, ephemeral | perennial |
| ant: steady, continuous, chronic | spasmodic |
| ant: incautious, rash, reckless, heedless | circumspect |
| syn: take over, requisition, expropriate | commandeer |