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Admonish
- Verb: to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
- Syn: warn, call on the carpet
- Ant: praise, pat on the back
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Breach
Noun: an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction
- Verb: to create an opening, break through
- Ant: close, seal
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Brigand
Noun: a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
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Circumspect
- Adj: careful, cautious
- Syn: wary, prudent, gaurded
- Ant: incatious, rash, reckless, heedless
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Commandeer
- Verb: to sieze for military or official use
- Syn: take over, requisition, expropriate
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Cumbersome
- Adj: clumsy, hard to handle; slow moving
- Syn: unwieldy, ponderous
- Ant: manageable, easy to handle
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Deadlock
- Noun: a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions
- Syn: standoff, stalemate, impasse
- Ant: agreement, accord, breakthrough
Verb: to bring to such a standstill
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Debris
- Noun: scattered fragments, wreckage
- Syn: rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsum
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Diffuse
- Verb: to spread or scatter freely or widely
- Syn: disperse
- Ant: concentrate
- Adj: wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
- Syn: rambling, verbase, prolix
- Ant: brief, concise, succinct
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Dilemma
- Noun: a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
- Syn: predicament, quandary, pickle, bind
- Ant: cinch
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Efface
- Verb: to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
- Syn: blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge
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Muddle
- Verb: to make a mess of; {muddle through}: to get by
- Syn: jumble, mess up
- Noun: a hopeless mess
- Syn: confusion, disorder
- Ant: orderliness, tidiness, neatness
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Opinionated
- Adj: stubborn and often unreasonable in holding on to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
- Syn: obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible
- Ant: open-minded, reasonable
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Perennial
- Adj: lasting for a long time, persistent
- Syn: enduring, recurring
- Ant: brief, short-lived, fleeting, ephemeral
Noun: a plant that lives for many years
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Predisposed
- Verb: to incline to beforehand
- Syn: make susceptable to
- Ant: immunize against, sheild from
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Relinquish
- Verb: to let go, give up
- Syn: surrender, abandon
- Ant: hold on to, keep, retain, cling to
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Salvage
- Verb: save from fire or shipwreck
- Syn: rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim
- Ant: abandon, scrap, junk
Noun: property thus saved
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Spasmodic
- Adj: sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
- Syn: irregular, occasional
- Ant: steady, continuous, chronic
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Spurious
- Adj: not genuine, not true, not valid
- Syn: false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus
- Ant: genuine, authentic, bona fide, valid
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Unbridled
- Adj: uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
- Syn: unrestrained, held in check, muted
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