english 1 vocab

Predispose

To incline to beforehand

Circumspect

Careful, cautious

Muddle

To make a mess of; muddle through: to get by, a hopeless mess

Cumbersome

Clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving

Brigand

A bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman

Commandeer

To seize for military or official use

Spasmodic

Sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent

Spurious

Not genuine, not true, not valid

Debris

Scattered fragments wreckage

Salvage

To save from fire or shipwreck, property thus saved

Breach

An opening, gap, rupture, rift, a violation or infraction

efface

To wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed

Unbridled

Lacking in restraint

Admonished

To caution or advise against something, to scold mildly, to remain of a duty

Relinquish

To let go, give up

Perennial

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

Opinionated

Stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to ones own ideas, having a closed mind

Dilemma

A difficult or perplexing situation or problem

Diffuse

To spread or scatter freely or widely, wordy long-winded, or unfocused, scattered or widely spread

Deadlock

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