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English Unit 1
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| admonish | To caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
| breach | an opening, gap, rupture, rift; 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 stand still resulting from the opposition of two equal forcesor fractions; to bring to such a stand still |
| debris | scatured fragments, wreckage |
| diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widly |
| dilemma | a difficult or perplexing sitution or problem |
| efface | to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
| muddle | to make a mass 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, persistant; a plant that lives for many years |
| predispose | to incline befor hand |
| relinquish | to let go, give up |
| salvage | to save from fire or ship wreck |
| spasmodic | sudden and violent but breif; fitful; intermittent |
| spurious | not genuine, not true, not valid |
| unbrided | uncontrolled, lack in restraint |