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