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