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english vocab unit 1
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| admonish | to caution or advise against something; to scold mildy; to remind of duty |
| breach | opening rupture gap |
| brigand | bandit or robber outlaw highwayman |
| circumspect | careful cautious |
| commandeer | to seize for military use |
| cumbersome | clumsy hard to handle slow moving |
| deadlock | a standstillresulting from the opposition of two equal forcesor fractions |
| debris | scattered fragments wreckage |
| diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely |
| dilemma | a difficult or perplexing situationor problem |
| efface | to wipe out to keep oneself from being noticed |
| muddle | to make a mess of |
| opinionated | stubborn and often unreasonablein holding ones own ideas |
| perrenial | lasting for a long time a plant that lives for a long time |
| predispose | to incline to beforehand |
| relinquish | to let go give up |
| salvage | to save from fire or shipwreck |
| spasmodic | sudden and violent but brief |
| spurious | not genuine not true not valid |
| unbridled | uncontrolled lacking in restraint |
| adjourn | to stop proceedings temporarily, move to another place |
| alien | a citizen of another country, foreign strange |
| comely | having a pleasing appearance |
| compensate | to make up for, to repay for services |
| dissolute | loose in ones morals or behavior |