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unit 1 vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; to bring to such a standstill |
debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely; word, longwinded |
dilemma | a difficult or perplexing situation or problem |
efface | to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed. |
muddle | to make a mess of; muddle through: to get by; a hopeless mess |
opinionated | stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own idea's, having a closed friend mind |
perennial | lasting for a long time, persistent; 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 | lacking in restraint |