| A | B |
|---|
| admonish | to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; remind of a duty |
| breach | an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through |
| 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 to such a standstill |
| debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
| diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread |
| dilemma | a difficult or perplexing situation or problem |
| efface | to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
| muddle | to make a mess of; muddle through; to get by; a hopeless mess |
| opinionated | stubbord 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 |
| salvage | to save from fire or shipwreck; property thus saved |
| spasmodic | sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittment |
| spurious | not genuine, not true, not valid |
| unbridled | uncontrolled, lacking restraint |
