Sadlier Oxford Vocabulary Workshop
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- admonish
- (verb) to caution or advise against something, to scold mildly, to remind of a duty
- breach
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(noun) an opening, gap, rupture, rift, a violation or infraction
(verb) to create an opening, break through - brigand
- (noun) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
- circumspect
- (adj.) careful, cautious
- commandeer
- (verb) to seize for military or official use
- cumbersome
- (adj) clumsy, hard to handle, slow moving
- deadlock
- (noun) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or fractions, (verb) to bring to such a standstill
- debris
- (verb) scatter fragments, wreckage
- diffuse
- (verb) to spread or scatter freely or widely (adj.) wordy, longwinded or unfocused, scatter or widely spread
- dilemma
- (noun) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
- efface
- (verb) to wipe out, to keep onself from being notices
- muddle
- (verb) to make a mess of, to get by (noun) a hopeless mess
- opinionated
- (adj.) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
- perennial
- (adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent (noun) a plant that lives for many years
- predispose
- (verb) to incline to beforehand
- relinquish
- (verb) to let go, give up
- salvage
- (verb) to save from fire or shipwreck (noun) property thus saved
- spasmodic
- (adj.) sudden and violent but brief, fitful, intermittent
- spurious
- (adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid
- unbridled
- (adj.) uncontrolled, lacking restraint