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HUnit One
Unit One vocabulary - Honors Senior English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| admonish | (v.)to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
| breach | (n.)an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; (v.)to create an opening, break through |
| brigand | (n.)a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman |
| circumspect | (adj.)careful, cautious |
| commandeer | (v.)to seize for military or official use |
| cumbersome | (adj.)clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving |
| deadlock | (n.)a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; (v.)to bring to such a standstill |
| debris | (n.)scattered fragments, wreckage |
| diffuse | (v.)to spread or scatter freely or widely; (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 noticed |
| muddle | (v.)to make a mess of; to get by; (n.)a hopeless mess |
| opinionated | (adj.)stubborn and often unreasonable in holding one's own ideas, having a closed mind |
| perennail | (adj.)lasting for a long time, persistent; (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; (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 |