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1024english vocab 1
english vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| v. To caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty | admonish |
| n. An opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; v. to create an opening, break through | breach |
| n. a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman | brigand |
| adj. careful, cautious | circumspect |
| v. to seize for military or official use | commandeer |
| adj. clumsy, hard to handle; slow moving | cumbersome |
| n. a stand still resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; v. to bring to such a stand still | deadlock |
| n. scattered fragments, wreckage | debris |
| v. to spread or scatter freely or widely; adj. wordy, long-winded or unfocused, scattered or widely spread | diffuse |
| n. a difficult or perplexing situation or problem | dilemma |
| v. to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed | efface |
| v. to make a mess of:to get by : n. a hopeless mess | muddle |
| adj. stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's ideas, having a closed mind | opinionated |
| adj. lasting for a long time; persistent n. a plant that lives for many years | perrenial |
| v. to incline to beforehand | predispose |
| v. to save from fire or shipwreck n. property thus saved | salvage |
| adj. sudden and violent but brief, fitful, intermittent | spasmodic |
| adj. notgenuine, not true, not valid | spurious |
| adj. uncontrolled, lacking in restraint | unbridled |
| v. to let go, give up | relinquish |