9th Grade English Vocab Unit 1

Admonish

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

Breach

Am opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through

Brigand

A bandit, rubber, outlaw, highwaymen

Circumspect

Careful, cautious

Commandeer

To cease for military or official use

Cumbersome

Clumsy, hard to handle, slow moving

Deadlock

A standstill, resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or fractions; to bring to such a standstill

Debris

Scattered fragment, 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 one self from being noticed

Muddle

To make a mess up; muddle through; to get by; a hopeless mess

Opinionated

Stubborn and often unreasonable, and 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

Set and violent, but brief; fitful; intermittent

Spurious

Not genuine, not true, not valid

Unbridled

Lacking in restraint

Like the rings a panels makes when tossed in a pool of water, the good feelings generated by the speech (diffused, relinquished) through the crowd.

Diffused

To ensure they are not resented, the most powerful nations in the world must be extremely (circumspect, opinionated) in their foreign policy.

Circumspect

Instead of trying to (admonish, commandeer) the support of the student body, we must earn it by showing our sincerity and ability.

Commandeer

An economy in which the marketplace is considered “open” is one in which the competition or more or less (muddled, unbridled).

Unbridled

Out city government seems to have (breached, muddled) into a first-rate financial crisis.

Muddled