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- to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly
- admonish
- an opening or a gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction
- breach
- a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
- brigand
- careful, cautious
- circumspect
- to sieze for military or offical use
- commandeer
- clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving
- cumbersome
- a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces
- deadlock
- scattered fragments, rubble, wreckage
- debris
- to spread or scatter freely or widely
- diffuse
- a difficult or perplexing situation
- dilemma
- to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
- efface
- to make a mess of
- muddle
- stubborn and often unreasonable
- opinionated
- lassting for a long time, persistent; a plant that lives many years
- perennial
- to incline to beforehand
- predispose
- to let go, give up
- relinquish
- to save from shipwreck; property saved
- salvage
- sudden and violent but breif; fitful;intermittent
- spasmodic
- not genuine, not true, not valid
- spurious
- uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
- unbridled
- to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place
- adjourn
- a citizen of another country; foreign, strange
- alien
- having a pleasing appearance
- comely
- to make up for, to repay for services
- compensate
- loose in one's morals or behavior
- dissolute
- not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable
- erratic
- the process of driving or forcing out
- expulsion
- a deliberately deceptive movement
- feint
- food for horses or cattle ; raw material for a designated purpose
- fodder
- to strengthten, build up
- fortify
- difficult or impossible to read
- illegible
- to make fun of rudely or unkindly
- jeer
- bringing in the money
- lucrative
- average, ordinary
- mediocre
- to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly
- proliferate
- to conquer by force, bring under complete control
- subjugate
- to soil, stain, tarnish, defile
- sully
- to tease, torment by teasing
- tantalize
- breif and to the point
- terse
- firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back
- unflinching
- to make shorter
- abridge
- a follower, supporter; attached to, sticking to
- adherent
- an angry argument
- altercation
- resembling an angel
- cherubic
- to pardon or overlook
- condone
- to disagree; disagreement
- dissent
- famous, outstanding, distinguished
- eminent
- to drive out by magic, to dispose of something troublesome
- exorcise
- to makeup, invent, manufacture
- fabricate
- angry
- irate
- a raider, plunderer
- marauder
- excessive fatness
- obesity
- an extremely poor person
- pauper
- to steal in small quantities
- pilfer
- a split, break, breach
- rift
- a likeness, an outward appearence, an apparition
- semblance
- to overcome, rise above
- surmount
- to bring to an end
- terminate
- commonplace, overused, stale
- trite
- to seize and hold a position by force or without right
- usurp