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Unit 1 Vocabulary

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  • Relinquish
    to let go, give up
  • Muddle
    to make a mess of; to get by; a hopeless mess
  • Cumbersome
    clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
  • Perennial
    lasting for a long time, persistent; a plant that lives for many years
  • Salvage
    to save from fire or shipwreck; property thus saved
  • Predispose
    to incline to beforehand
  • Unbridled
    uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
  • Commandeer
    to seize for military or official use
  • Dilemma
    a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
  • Debris
    scattered fragments, wreckage
  • Efface
    to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
  • Breach
    to create an opening, break through; an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction
  • Diffuse
    wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread; to spread or scatter freely or widely
  • Brigand
    a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
  • Spasmodic
    sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
  • Deadlock
    to bring to such a standstill; a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or fractions
  • Circumspect
    careful, cautious
  • Opinionated
    stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
  • Admonish
    to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
  • Spurious
    not genuine, not true, not valid
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