1 / 20

Vocabulary Lesson 1

Vocabulary Lesson 1. Admonish. (v.) To caution or advise against; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty. syn: reprimand ant: praise. Breach. (n.) An opening, gap, rift; (v.) To create an opening, break through ant: close, seal. (n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw. Brigand.

thane-nielsen
Download Presentation

Vocabulary Lesson 1

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Vocabulary Lesson 1

  2. Admonish (v.) To caution or advise against; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty. syn: reprimand ant: praise

  3. Breach (n.) An opening, gap, rift; (v.) To create an opening, break through ant: close, seal

  4. (n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw Brigand

  5. (adj.) Careful, cautious Ant: incautious, rash, reckless Circumspect

  6. Commandeer (v.) To seize for official military use syn: take over

  7. Cumbersome (adj.) clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving syn: difficult, uncomfortable ant: manageable, easy to handle

  8. Deadlock (n.) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions (v.) to bring such to a standstill Syn: (n.) standoff, impasse Ant: (n.) agreement

  9. Debris (n.) scattered fragments, wreckage Syn: remains

  10. Diffuse (v.) to spread or scatter freely or wildly (adj.) wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread Syn: (v.) disperse; Ant: (v.) concentrate; (adj.) brief, concise

  11. Dilemma (n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem Syn: predicament, quandary, pickle, bind Ant: cinch

  12. Efface (v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed Syn: blot out, erase, expunge

  13. Muddle (v.) to make a mess of; muddle through: to get by (n.) a hopeless mess Syn: (v.) jumble, mess up; (n.) confusion, disorder Ant: (n.) orderliness, neatness

  14. Opinionated (adj.) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind (syn.) obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible (ant.) open-minded, reasonable

  15. (v.) to incline to beforehand (syn.) tending to, liable to (ant.) immunize against, shield from Predisposed

  16. Relinquish (v.) to let go, give up (syn.)  surrender (ant.) hold on  to, keep, cling to

  17. Salvage (v.) to save (syn.) (v.) recover, retrieve, reclaim (ant.) (v.) abandon, scrap

  18. Spasmodic (adj.) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent (syn.) irregular, occasional (ant.) steady, continuous, chronic

  19. (adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid (syn.) false, counterfeit, fraudulent, (ant.) genuine, valid Spurious

  20. (adj.) lacking in restraint (syn.) unrestrained, unchecked (ant.) restrained, held in check, muted Unbridled Unbridled

More Related