Vocabulary Lesson 1

Admonish

syn: reprimandant: praise

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

(n.) An opening, gap, rift;

(v.) To create an opening, break through

ant: close, seal

Breach

(n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw

Brigand

(adj.) Careful, cautious

Ant: incautious, rash, reckless

Circumspect

(v.) To seize for official military useCommandeer

syn: take over

Cumbersome(adj.) clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving

syn: difficult, uncomfortableant: manageable, easy to handle

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

Syn: (n.) standoff, impasseAnt: (n.) agreement

Debris (n.) scattered fragments, wreckageSyn: remains

Diffuse(v.) to spread or scatter freely or wildly(adj.) wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread

Syn: (v.) disperse; Ant: (v.) concentrate; (adj.) brief, concise

Dilemma(n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem

Syn: predicament, quandary, pickle, bindAnt: cinch

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

Syn: blot out, erase, expunge

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

Syn: (v.) jumble, mess up; (n.) confusion, disorderAnt: (n.) orderliness, neatness

Opinionated

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

(syn.) obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible (ant.) open-minded, reasonable

Predisposed(v.) to incline to beforehand (syn.) tending to, liable to (ant.) immunize against, shield from

Relinquish

(v.) to let go, give up(syn.)  surrender(ant.) hold on  to, keep, cling to

Salvage

(v.) to save (syn.) (v.) recover, retrieve, reclaim (ant.) (v.) abandon, scrap

Spasmodic

(adj.) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent (syn.) irregular, occasional (ant.) steady, continuous, chronic

Spurious(adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid(syn.) false, counterfeit, fraudulent, (ant.) genuine, valid

Unbridled(adj.) lacking in restraint(syn.) unrestrained, unchecked (ant.) restrained, held in check, muted

Unbridled