Unit 1-3 Vocab

Abridge

To make shorter

Adherent

A follower, supporter | attached, sticking to

Adjourn

To stop proceedings for a time; to move to another place

Alien

A citizen of another country

Brigand

A bandit

Cherubic

Resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent

Circumspect

Careful, cautious

Commandeer

To seize for military or official use

Compensate

To make up for; to repay for services

Condone

To pardon or overlook

Deadlock

A complete standstill | To bring to a standstill

Debris

Scattered fragments, wreckage

Diffuse

To spread or scatter freely or widely | Wordy, long winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread

Dissent

To disagree | disagreement

Efface

To wipe out; to keep oneself from being unnoticed

Eminent

Famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting

Erratic

Not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undepend

Exorcise

To drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive

Expulsion

The process of driving or forcing out

Fabricate

To make, manufacture; to make up, invent

Feint

A deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense

Fodder

Food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose

Irate

Angry

Jeer

To make fun of rudely or unkindly

Lucrative

Bringing in money, profitable

Marauder

A raider, plunderer

Muddle

To make a mess of: muddle through: to get by | A hopeless mess

Pauper

An extremely poor person

Pilfer

To steal in small quantities

Relinquish

To let go, give up

Rift

A split, break, breach

Salvage

To save from shipwreck | Property thus saved

Semblance

A likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition

Spurious

Not genuine, not true, not valid

Subjugate

To conquer by force, bring under complete control

Sully

To soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch

Surmount

To overcome, rise above

Trite

Commonplace; overused, stale

Unflinching

Firm, showing no sign of fear, not drawing back

Usurp

To seize and hold a position by force or without right

Cumbersome

Clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving

Admonish

To caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of duty

Altercation

An angry argument

Comely

Having a pleasing appearance 

Dilemma

A difficult or perplexing situation

Dissolute

Loose in one’s morals

Fortify

To strengthen, build up

Mediocre

Average, ordinary, undistinguished

Obesity

Extreme fatness

Perennial

Lasting for a long time, persistent; A plant that lives for many years

Predispose

To incline to beforehand

Spasmodic

Sudden and violent but brief; fitful, intermittent

Tantalize

To tease, torment by teasing

Unbridled

Uncontrolled, lacking in restraint