- admonish: to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; warn, call on the carpet
- breach: an opening, gap, rupture, rift; to create an opening, break through
- brigand: a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
- circumspect: careful, cautious, wary , prudent, guarded
- commandeer: to seize for military or official use, take over, requisition
- cumbersome: clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving, unwieldy, ponderous
- deadlock: standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; to bring to such a standstill
- debris: scattered fragments, wreckage, rubble, detritus
- diffuse: to spread or scatter freely; wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
- dilemma: a difficult or perplexing situation or problem, predicament, pickle, bind
- efface: to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
- muddle: to make a mess of ; a hopeless mess
- opinionated: stubborn and often unreasonable 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, surrender, abandon
- 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: uncontrollable, lacking in restraint
vocab 1