1. Vocabulary Lesson 1 1

2. Admonish
(v.) To caution or advise against; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty.
syn: reprimand
ant: praise 2

3. Breach (n.) An opening, gap, rift; (v.) To create an opening,
break through
ant: close, seal 3

4. (n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw
Brigand 4

5. (adj.) Careful, cautious
Ant: incautious, rash, reckless
Circumspect 5

6. (v.) To seize for official military use
Commandeer
(v.) To seize for official military use
syn: take over 6

7. Cumbersome (adj.) clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving
syn: difficult, uncomfortable
ant: manageable, easy to handle 7

8. 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

9. Debris
(n.) scattered fragments, wreckage
Syn: remains 9

10. 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

11. Dilemma (n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
Syn: predicament, quandary, pickle, bind
Ant: cinch 11

12. Efface (v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
Syn: blot out, erase, expunge 12

13. 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

14. 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

15. Predisposed (v.) to incline to beforehand (syn.) tending to, liable to
(ant.) immunize against, shield from
Predisposed 16

16. Relinquish (v.) to let go, give up (syn.) surrender
(ant.) hold on  to, keep, cling to 17

17. Salvage (v.) to save (syn.) (v.) recover, retrieve, reclaim
(ant.) (v.) abandon, scrap 18

18. Spasmodic (adj.) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
(syn.) irregular, occasional
(ant.) steady, continuous, chronic 19

19. Spurious (adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid
(syn.) false, counterfeit, fraudulent,
(ant.) genuine, valid
Spurious 20

20. Unbridled Unbridled (adj.) lacking in restraint
(syn.) unrestrained, unchecked
(ant.) restrained, held in check, muted
Unbridled
Unbridled 21