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Admonish

(v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

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Breach

(n.) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; (v.) to create an opening, break through

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Brigand

(n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman

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Circumspect

(adj.) careful, cautious

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Commandeer

(v.) to seize for military or official use

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cumbersome

(adj.) clumsy, hard to handle; slow

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deadlock

(n.) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; (v.) to bring to such a standstill

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debris

(n.) scattered fragments, wreckage

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diffuse

(v.) to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj.) wordy, long

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dilemma

(n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem

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efface

(v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed

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muddle

(v.) to make a mess of; muddle through: to get by; (n.) a hopeless mess

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opinionated

(adj) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind

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perennial

(adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many years

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predispose

v. to make susceptible; to put in a frame of mind for; to incline toward

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relinquish

(v.) to give up or actively surrender

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salvage

(v) to save from fire or shipwreck;(n) property thus saved

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spasmodic

(adj.) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent

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spurious

(adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid

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unbridled

(adj.) uncontrolled, lacking in restraint

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