Vocabulary Lesson 1 1
Admonish (v.) To caution or advise against; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty. syn: reprimand ant: praise 2
Breach (n.) An opening, gap, rift; (v.) To create an opening, break through ant: close, seal 3
(n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw Brigand 4
(adj.) Careful, cautious Ant: incautious, rash, reckless Circumspect 5
(v.) To seize for official military use Commandeer (v.) To seize for official military use syn: take over 6
Cumbersome (adj.) clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving syn: difficult, uncomfortable ant: manageable, easy to handle 7
Deadlock Syn: (n.) standoff, impasse Ant: (n.) agreement (n.) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions (v.) to bring such to a standstill Syn: (n.) standoff, impasse Ant: (n.) agreement 8
Debris (n.) scattered fragments, wreckage Syn: remains 9
Diffuse Syn: (v.) disperse; (v.) to spread or scatter freely or wildly (adj.) wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread Syn: (v.) disperse; Ant: (v.) concentrate; (adj.) brief, concise 10
Dilemma (n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem Syn: predicament, quandary, pickle, bind Ant: cinch 11
Efface (v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed Syn: blot out, erase, expunge 12
Muddle (v.) to make a mess of; muddle through: to get by (n.) a hopeless mess Syn: (v.) jumble, mess up; (n.) confusion, disorder Ant: (n.) orderliness, neatness 13
Opinionated (adj.) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind (syn.) obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible (ant.) open-minded, reasonable 14
Predisposed (v.) to incline to beforehand (syn.) tending to, liable to (ant.) immunize against, shield from Predisposed 16
Relinquish (v.) to let go, give up (syn.) surrender (ant.) hold on to, keep, cling to 17
Salvage (v.) to save (syn.) (v.) recover, retrieve, reclaim (ant.) (v.) abandon, scrap 18
Spasmodic (adj.) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent (syn.) irregular, occasional (ant.) steady, continuous, chronic 19
Spurious (adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid (syn.) false, counterfeit, fraudulent, (ant.) genuine, valid Spurious 20
Unbridled Unbridled (adj.) lacking in restraint (syn.) unrestrained, unchecked (ant.) restrained, held in check, muted Unbridled Unbridled 21