Vocabulary Units 1-9
Terms
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- facilitate
- to make easier
- terminate
- bring to an end
- dissent
- to disagree
- fabricate
- to make up, invent
- compensate
- make up for
- catalyst
- any agent that causes change
- fated
- determined in advanced by destiny
- daunt
- to overcome with fear
- intrepid
- fearless
- unbridled
- uncontrolled
- access
- approach or admittance to places
- dilemma
- problem
- proliferate
- to reproduce
- opinionated
- having a closed mind
- arduous
- hard to due
- rebut
- to offer arguments
- deadlock
- to bring to such a standstill
- reprieve
- a temporary relief or delay
- incorrigible
- beyond control
- slapdash
- careless and hasty
- salvage
- save from fire or shipwreck
- breach
- to break through
- spurious
- invalid
- accomplice
- person who takes part in a crime
- feint
- a delibrately deceptive movement
- erratic
- irregular
- larceny
- theft
- adjourn
- to stop proceedings temporarily
- precipice
- a very steep cliff
- annihilate
- to destroy completely
- prattle
- babble
- exodus
- a large scale departure
- predispose
- to incline to beforehand
- relinquish
- give up
- cherubic
- resembling an angel
- comely
- pleasant to look at
- stagnant
- not running or flowing
- abridge
- to make shorter
- morose
- not friendly or sociable
- exorcise
- to drive out by magic
- hoodwink
- deceive
- jeer
- a rude remark
- fodder
- food for horse or cattle
- brazen
- made of brass
- incinerate
- to burn to ashes
- servitude
- slavery
- efface
- to wipe out
- arbitrary
- unreasonable
- tantalize
- to torment by teasing
- pilfer
- to steal in small quantities
- paramount
- of chief importance
- circumspect
- careful, cautious
- rectify
- to make right
- militant
- given to fighting
- disentangle
- free from tangles
- fortify
- to strengthen or build up
- diffuse
- scatter freely or widely
- debris
- scattered fragments
- commandeer
- seize for military use
- sully
- to soil, stain or tarnish
- admonish
- to caution or advise against something
- pompous
- excessively stately
- alien
- foreign
- revile
- to attack with words
- marauder
- a raider, a plunderer
- trite
- common, overused
- semblance
- a likeness
- biased
- favoring one side unduly
- eminent
- famous, outstanding
- anarchy
- lack of government
- pliant
- easily influenced
- expulsion
- the process of driving or forcing out
- perennial
- lasting for a long time
- subjugate
- conquer by force
- condone
- to pardon or overlook
- auspicious
- favorable
- lucrative
- profitable
- unflinching
- showing no signs of fear
- obesity
- excessive fatness
- irate
- angry
- muddle
- a hopeless mess
- altercation
- angry argument
- mediocre
- average
- spasmodic
- violent but brief
- usurp
- to seize a position without right
- rift
- a split, break or breach
- inanimate
- not having life
- brigand
- bandit
- cumbersome
- clumsy, hard to handle
- illegible
- impossible to read
- abscond
- run off and hide
- surmount
- to overcome, rise above
- terse
- brief and to the point
- latent
- present, but not realized
- reprimand
- to scold
- opaque
- not letting light through
- dissolute
- loose in one's morals
- succumb
- yield
- pauper
- extremely poor person
- adherent
- a follower