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Unit 1 Level D
English 9A
Admonish
 (v) to caution or advise against something; to scold
mildly; to remind of a duty
 Synonym: warn, call on the carpet
 Antonym: praise, pat on the back
Breach
 (n) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or
infraction; (v) to create an opening, break through
 Antonym: (v) close, seal
Brigand
 (n) bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
Cumbersome
 (adj) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
 Synonym: ponderous
 Antonym: manageable, easy to handle
commandeer
 (v) to seize for military or
official use
 Synonym: take over,
requisition, expropriate
"Well, then, I confess. It is my intention to
commandeer one of these ships, pick up a
crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder, and
otherwise pilfer my weaselly black guts out.“
Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Deadlock
 (n) n. a standstill resulting from the opposition of two
equal forces or factions; (v) to bring to such a
standstill
 Synonym: standoff, stalemate, impasse
 Antonym: agreement, accord, breakthrough
Debris
 (n) scattered
fragments, wreckage
 Synonym: rubble,
flotsam and jetsam
Diffuse
 (v)to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj) wordy,
long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
 Synonym: (v) disperse; (adj) rambling, verbose
 Antonym: (v) concentrate; (adj) brief, concise,
succinct
Dilemma
 (n) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
 Synonym: predicament, quandary, pickle, bind
 Antonym: cinch
Efface
 (v) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being notice
 Synonym: blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge
Muddle
 (v) to make a mess of, muddle
through, to get by; (n) a hopeless
mess
 Synonym: (v) jumble, mess up;
(n) confusion, disorder
 Antonym: (n) orderliness,
tidness, neatness
Opinionated
 (adj) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to
one’s own ideas, having a closed mind
 Synonym: obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible
 Antonym: open-minded, reasonable
Perennial
 (adj) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that
lives for many years
 Synonym: (adj) enduring, recurring
 Antonym: (adj) brief, short-lived, fleeting
Predisposed
 (v) to incline to beforehand
 Synonym: make susceptible to
 Antonyms: immunize against,
shield from
Relinquish
 (v) to let go, give up
 Synonym: surrender, abandon
 Antonym: hold on to, keep,
retain, cling to
Salvage
 (v) to save from fire or shipwreck; (n) property thus
saved
 Synonym: (v) rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim
 Antonym: (v) abandon, scrap, junk
Spasmodic
 (adj) sudden and violent but brief, fitful; intermittent
 Synonym: irregular, occasional
 Antonym: steady, continuous, chronic
Spurious
 (adj) not genuine, not true, not valid
 Synonym: false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus
 Antonym: genuine, authentic, bona fide, valid
Unbridled
 (adj) uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
 Synonym: unrestrained, unchecked
 Antonym: restrained, held in check, muted
The Unbridled Spirit by Nancy Glazier