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| admonish | v. to caution or advise aginst something; to scold mildly; to remind of a dut |
| breach | n. an opening, gp; a violation or infraction; v. to create an opening, break through |
| brigand | n. a bandit |
| circumspect | adj. careful, cautious |
| commandeer | v. to seize for military or official use |
| cumbersome | adj. clums, hard to handle; sow-moving |
| deadlock | n. a complete standstill; v. t bring ta standstill |
| debris | n. scattred fragements, wreckage |
| diffuse | v. to spread or scatter frrely 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 |
| opinionatd | adj. stubbor and often unreasonable in holding to 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 o beforehand |
| relinquish | v. to le go, give up |
| salvage | v. to save from fie 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 |
| adjourn | v. to stop proceedings for a time; to move to another place |
| alien | n. a citizen of another country; adj. foreign, strange |
| comely | adj. having a pleasin appearance |
| compensate | v. to make up for; to repay for services |
| dissolute | adj. loose in one's morals or behavior |
| erratic | adj. not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable |
| expulsion | n. the process of driving or forcing out |
| feint | n. a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; v. to make a deceptive movement; to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of |
| fodder | n. food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose |
| fortify | v. to strengthen, build up |
| illegible | adj. difficult or impossible to read |
| jeer | v. to make fun of rudely or unkindly; n. a rude remark of derision |
| lucrative | adj. bringing in money; profitable |
| mediocre | adj. average, ordinary, undistinguished |
| proliferate | v. to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly |
| subjugate | v. to conquer by force, bring under complete control |
| sully | v. to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch |
| tantalize | v. to tease, torment by teasing |
| terse | adj. brief and to the point |
| unflinching | adj. firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back |
| abridge | v. to make shorter |
| adherent | n. a follower, supporter; adj. attached, sticking to |
| altercation | n. an angry argument |
| cherubic | adj. resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and inncocent |
| condone | v.to pardon or ovrlook |
| dissent | v. to discourage; n. disareement |
| eminent | adj. famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting |
| exorcise | v, to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing or oppressive |
| fabricate | v. to make, manufacture; to make up, invent |
| irate | adj. angry |
| marauder | n. a raider, plunderer |
| obesity | n. extreme fatness |
| pauper | n. an extemely poor person |
| pilfer | v. to steal in small quantities |
| rift | n. a split, break, breach |
| semblance | n. a likeness; an outward appearanc; an aparition |
| surmount | v. to overcome, rise above |
| terminate | v. to bring to an end |
| trite | adj. commonplace; overused, stale |
| usurp | v. to seize and hold a position by force or without right |
| abscond | v. to run off and hide |
| access | n. approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; v. to get at obtain |
| anarchy | n. a lack of government and law, confusion |
| arduous | adj. hard to do, requiring much effort |
| auspicious | adj. favorable; fortunate |
| biased | adj. favoring one side unduly; prejudiced |
| daunt | v. to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage |
| disentangle | v. to free from tangles or compications |
| fated | adj. determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| hoodwink | v. to mislead by a trick, deceive |
| inanimate | adj. not having life; without energy or spirit |
| incinerate | v. to burn to ashes |
| intrepid | adj. very brave, fearless, unshakeable |
| larceny | n. theft |
| pliant | adj. bending readily, easily influenced |
| pompous | adj. overly self-important in speech or manner; excessively statey or ceremonious |
| precipice | n. a very steep cliff; th brink or edge of disaster |
| rectify | v. to make right, correct |
| reprieve | n. a temporary relief or delay; v. to grant a postponement |
| revile | v. to attack with words, call bad names |
| accomplice | n. a persn who takes part in a crime |
| annihilate | v. to destroy completely |
| arbitrary | adj. unreasonable; based on one's own wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness |
| brazen | adj. made of brass; shameless, impudent |
| catalyst | n. a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that cuses change |
| exodus | n. a large-scale departure or flight |
| facilitate | v. to make easier |
| incorrigible | adj. not able to be corrected, beyond control |
| latent | adj. hodden, present but not reallized |
| militant | adj. given t fighting; active and aggressive in support of a cause; n. activist |
| morose | adj. having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable |
| opaque | adj. not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid |
| paramount | adj. chief in importance, above all others |
| prattle | v. to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; n. baby talk |
| rebut | v. to offer arguments or vidence that contradict an assertion, to refute |
| reprimand | v. to scold, find fault with; n. a rebuke |
| servitude | n. slavery, forced labor |
| slapdash | adj. careless and hasty |
| stagnant | adj. not running or flowing; foul from standin still; inactive, sluggish, dull |
| succumb | v. to give way to superior force, yield |
| atone | v. to make up for |
| bondage | n. slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
| credible | adj. believable |
| defray | v. to pay for |
| diligent | adj. harworking, industrious, not lazy |
| doleful | adj. sad, dreary |
| ghastly | adj. frightful, horrible; deathly pale |
| hamper | v. to hold back |
| hew | v. to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to |
| impoverished | adj. poor, in a state of poverty; depleated |
| incessant | adj. never stopping, going on all the time |
| intricate | adj. complicated, difficult to understand |
| lucid | adj. easy to understand, clear; rational, sane |
| posthumous | adj. occuring or publishd after death |
| prim | adj. overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish |
| sardonic | adj. grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| 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 |
