Vocabulary Quiz #1 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Admonish
verb - Caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
(warn, call on the carpet)
breach
noun - an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction
verb - to create an opening; to break through
(break)
brigand
noun - bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
thief
circumspect
adj - careful, cautious
wary, prudent, guarded
commandeer
verb - to seize for military or official use
take over, requisition, expropriate
cumbersome
adj - clumsy, hard-to-handle; slow moving
unwieldy, ponderous
deadlock
noun - standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or fractions
verb - bring to a standstill
(standoff, stalemate, impasse)
debris
noun - scattered fragments or wreckage
rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam
diffuse
verb - to spread or scatter freely or widely
disperse
dilemma
noun - a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
predicament, quandary, pickle, bind
efface
verb - to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
blot off, erase, obliterate, expunge
muddle
verb - to make a mess of; muddle through; to get by
noun - a hopeless mess
(jumble, mess up, disorder)
opinionated
adj - stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one’s own ideas; having a closed mind
(obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible)
perennial
adj - lasting for a long time, persistent
noun - a plant that lives for many years
(enduring, recurring)
predispose
verb - to incline to beforehand
make susceptible to
relinquish
verb - to let go, to give up
surrender, abandon
salvage
verb - to save from fire or shipwreck
noun - property saved from a disaster
(rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim)
spasmodic
adj - sudden and violent, but brief, fitful, intermittent
irregular, occasional
spurious
adj - not genuine, not true, invalid
false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus
unbridled
adj - uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
unrestrained, unchecked
