vocab for my english class
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| Admonish | to caution or advise against something, mildly scold | |
| Breach | an opening or gap, rupture, rift | |
| Brigand | A bandit, robber | |
| Circumspect | careful, cautious | |
| Commandeer | to seize for military use | |
| cumbersome | clumsy | |
| deadlock | a standstill | |
| debris | wreckage | |
| diffuse | to spread or to scatter freely | |
| efface | to wipe out | |
| muddle | to make a mess of | |
| opinionated | stubborn and unreasonable | |
| perennial | lasting a long time | |
| predispose | to incline to beforehand | |
| relinquish | to let go | |
| salvage | to save from fire or shipwreck | |
| spasmodic | sudden and violent but brief | |
| spurious | not genuine | |
| unbridled | uncontrolled | |
| adjourn | to stop precedings temporarily | |
| alien | a citizen of another country | |
| comely | having a pleasing appearance | |
| compensate | to make up for | |
| dissolute | loose in ones morals | |
| erratic | not regular or consistent | |
| expulsion | the process of driving out | |
| feint | deliberately deceptive movement | |
| fodder | food for horses | |
| fortify | to strengthen | |
| illegible | difficult to read | |
| jeer | to make fun of rudely | |
| lucrative | bringing in money | |
| mediocre | average, ordinary | |
| proliferate | to increase or spread rapidly | |
| subjugate | to conquer by force | |
| sully | to soil, stain | |
| tantalize | to tease | |
| terse | brief | |
| unflinching | firm, no signs of fear | |
| abridge | to make shorter | |
| adherent | follower or supporter- attached, sticking to | |
| altercation | angry argument | |
| cherubic | angelic | |
| condone | to overlook | |
| dissent | to disagree | |
| eminent | famous, outstanding | |
| exorcise | to drive out by magic | |
| fabricate | to make or manufacture | |
| irate | angry | |
| marauder | raider or plunderer | |
| obesity | excessive fatness | |
| pauper | extremely poor person | |
| pilfer | to steal in small amounts | |
| rift | to split | |
| semblance | a likeness | |
| surmount | to overcome | |
| terminate | to bring to an end | |
| trite | overused, stale | |
| usurp | to seize and hold a position by force or without right | |
| abscond | to run off and hide | |
| access | admittance to places and special things | |
| anarchy | lack of government | |
| arduous | hard to do | |
| auspicious | favorable | |
| biased | favoring one side | |
| daunt | to overcome with fear | |
| disentangle | to free from tangles | |
| fated | determined in advance | |
| hoodwink | to mislead by trick | |
| inanimate | not having life | |
| incinerate | to burn to ashes | |
| intrepid | very brave | |
| larceny | theft | |
| pliant | easily influenced | |
| pompous | overly self important in speech and manor | |
| precipice | very steep cliff | |
| rectify | to make right | |
| reprieve | temporary relief or delay | |
| revile | to attack with words | |
| accomplice | person who takes part in crime | |
| annihilate | to destroy completely | |
| arbritrary | unreasonable | |
| brazen | made of brass, shameless | |
| catalyst | substance that causes/hastens a chemical reaction | |
| exodus | large scale departure/flight | |
| facilitate | to make easier | |
| incorrigable | beyond control | |
| latent | hidden | |
| militant | given to fighting | |
| morose | having a gloomy or sullen manor | |
| opaque | not letting light through | |
| paramount | chief in importance | |
| prattle | to take in an aimless, foolish, or simple way | |
| rebut | a rebuttle (fight back) | |
| reprimand | to scold | |
| servitude | slavery, forced labor | |
| slapdash | careless and hasty | |
| stagnant | inactive, sluggish, dull | |
| succumb | to give way to superior force |
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