| Term | Definition |
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| Admonish | to caution ro advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
| Breach | an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation of infraction; to create an opening |
| 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 such a stand still |
| Debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
| Diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely; long-winded, unfocused |
| Dilemma | a difficlut or perplexing situation or problem |
| Efface | to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
| Muddle | to make a mess of, to get by; a hopless mess |
| Opinionated | stubborn and often unreasonalbe in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed 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 | uncontrolled, lacking in restraint |
| abridge | To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles. |
| adherent | sticking fast |
| altercation | n. (act of) quarrelling or arguing noisily |
| cherubic | angelic; innocent looking |
| condone | overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse |
| dissent | a difference of opinion |
| eminent | (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation |
| exocise | to drive out by magic; to dipose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive. Syn: expel, dispel, to drive out by magic; to dipose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive. Syn: expel, dispel |
| fabricate | put together out of components or parts |
| irate | Moved to anger. |
| marauder | a raider |
| obesity | Excessive fatness. |
| pauper | One without means of support. |
| pilfer | to steal insignificant iteams- v. |
| rift | a narrow fissure in rock |
| semblance | an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading |
| surmount | get on top of |
| terminate | terminate the employment of |
| trite | Made commonplace by frequent repetition. |
| usurp | take the place of |
| adjourn | to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place |
| alien | a citizen of another country; foreign, strange |
| comely | having a pleasing appearance |
| compensate | to make up for; to repay for services |
| dissolute | loose in one's morals or behavior |
| erratic | not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable |
| expulsion | the process of driving or forcing out |
| feint | a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of |
| fodder | food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose |
| fortify | to strengthen; build up |
| illegible | difficult or impossible to read |
| jeer | to make fun of rudely or unkindly; a rude remark of derision |
| lucrative | bringing in money; profitable |
| mediocre | average, ordinary, undistinguised |
| proliferate | to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly |
| subjugate | to conquer by force, bring under complete control |
| sully | to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch |
| tantalize | to tease, torment by teasing |
| terse | brief and to the point |
| unflinching | firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back |
| Abscond | (v) to run off and hide |
| Access | (n) approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; (v) to get at, obtain |
| accomplice | a person who takes part in a crime |
| Anarchy | (n) a lack of government and law; confusion |
| annihilate | to destroy completely |
| arbrtrary | unreasonable based on ones wishes or whims without regard |
| Arduous | (adj) hard to do, requiring much effort |
| atone | (v) to make up for |
| Auspicious | (adj) favorable, fortunate |
| Biased | (adj) favoring one side unduly; prejudiced |
| bondage | (n) slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
| brazen | shameless impudent, made of brass |
| catalyst | a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction |
| credible | (adj) believable. |
| Daunt | (v) to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage |
| defray | (v) to pay for |
| diligent | (adj) hardworking, industrious, not lazy |
| Disentangle | (v) to free of tangles or complications |
| doleful | (adj) sad; dreary |
| exodus | a large scale departure or flight |
| facilitate | to make easier to assist |
| Fated | (adj) determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| ghastly | (adj) frightful, horrible; deathly pale |
| hamper | (v) to hold back |
| hew | (v) to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to |
| Hoodwink | (v) to mislead by trick, deceive |
| impoverished | (adj) poor, In a state of poverty; depleted |
| Inanimate | (adj) not having life; without energy or spirit |
| incessant | (adj) never stopping, going on all the time |
| Incinerate | (v) to burn to ashes |
| incorrigible | not able to be corrected beyond control |
| Intrepid | (adj) very brave, fearless, unshakable |
| intricate | (adj) complicated; difficult to understand |
| Larceny | (n) theft |
| latent | hidden present but not realized |
| lucid | (adj) easy to understand, clear; rational, sane |
| militant | given to fighting active and aggresive in support of a cause;(n) an activist |
| morose | having a glommy or sullen manner not frendly or sociable |
| opaque | not letting light through not clear or lucid dense stupid |
| paramount | chief in importance above all others |
| Pliant | (adj) bending readily; easily influenced |
| Pompous | (adj) overly self-important in speech or manner; excessively stately or ceremonious |
| posthumous | (adj) occuring or published after death |
| prattle | to talk in an aimless foolish or simply way to babble; baby talk babble |
| Precipice | (n) a very steep cliff, the brink or edge of disaster |
| prim | (adj) overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish |
| rebut | to offer arguments to evidence that contradicts an assertion; to refute |
| Rectify | (v) to make right, correct |
| Reprieve | (n) a temporary relief or delay; (v) to grant a postponement |
| reprimand | to scold find fault with a rebuke |
| Revile | (v) to attack with words, call bad names |
| sardonic | (adj) grimly or scornfullly mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| servitude | slavery forced labor |
| slapdash | careless and hasty |
| stagnant | not running or flowing, foul from standing still |
| succumb | to give way to superior force yield |
| superfluous | (adj) exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess |
| supplant | (v) to take the place of, supersede |
| taunt | (v) to jeer at, mock; (n) an insulting or mocking remark |
| tenacious | (adj) holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent |
| adieu | "farewell;" a farewell |
| advent | an arrival; a coming into place or view |
| apex | the highest point, tip |
| assimilate | to absorb fully or make one's own; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully |
| bogus | false, counterfeit |
| exorbitant | unreasonably high; excessive |
| interim | the time between; temporary, coming between two points in time |
| inundate | to flood, overflow; to overwhelm by number or size |
| malign | to speak evil of, slander; evil |
| meander | to wander about, wind about; a sharp turn or twist |
| metropolis | a large city; the chief city of an area |
| momentous | very important |
| obstreperous | noisy, unruly, disorderly |
| pensive | thoughtful, melancholy |
| perilous | dangerous |
| shoddy | of poor quality; characterized by inferior workmanship |
| sprightly | lively, full of life; spicy, flavorful |
| surly | angry and bad-tempered; rude |
| tirade | a long, angry speech, usually very critical |
| vagrant | an idle wanderer, tramp; wandering aimlessly |
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