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9th grade vocab.
Vocabulary words from Ms. Terry's class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Admonish | caution or advise against something; to scold mildly, to remind of a duty |
| Breach | an opening, gap; a violation or infraction; to create and opening, break through |
| Brigand | a bandit |
| Circumspect | careful, cautious |
| Commandeer | to seize for military or official use |
| Cumbersome | clumsy, hard to handle, slow moving |
| Deadlock | a compelte standstill; to bring to a standstill |
| Debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
| Diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread |
| Dilemma | a difficult or perplexing situation |
| Efface | to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
| Muddle | to make a mess of; a hopeless mess (muddle through= to get by) |
| 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 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 |