Vocab Units 1-8

Verb: to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

• Noun: an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction
• Verb: to create an opening, break through

Noun: a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman

Adj: careful, cautious

Verb: to sieze for military or official use

Adj: clumsy, hard to handle; slow moving

• Noun: a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions
• Verb: to bring to such a standstill

Noun: scattered fragments, wreckage

• Verb: to spread or scatter freely or widely
• Adj: wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread

Noun: a difficult or perplexing situation or problem

Verb: to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed

• Verb: to make a mess of; {muddle through}: to get by
• Noun: a hopeless mess

Adj: stubborn and often unreasonable in holding on to one's own ideas, having a closed mind

• Adj: lasting for a long time, persistent
• Noun: a plant that lives for many years

Verb: to incline to beforehand

Verb: to let go, give up

• Verb: save from fire or shipwreck
• Noun: property thus saved

Adj: sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent

Adj: not genuine, not true, not valid

Adj: uncontrolled, lacking in restraint

Verb: to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place

• Noun: a citizen of another country
• Adj: foriegn, strange

Adj: having a pleasing appearance

Verb: to make up for; to repay for services

Adj: loose in one's morals or behavior

Adj: not regular or consistent; different from what is normally expected; undependable

Noun: the process of driving something out

• Noun: a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense
• Verb: to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of

Noun: food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose

Verb, strengthen, build up

Adj: difficult or impossible to read

• Verb: make fun of rudely or unkndly
• Noun: a rude remark of derision

Adj: bringing in money; profitable

Adj: average, ordinary, undistinguished

Verb: reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly

Verb: conquer by force, bring under complete controll

Verb: to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch

Verb: tease, torment by teasing

Adj: brief and to the point

Adj: firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back

verb: to make shorter

• noun: a follower
• adj: attached, sticking to

noun: an angry argument

adj: resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent

verb: to pardon or overlook

• verb: to disagree
• noun: disagreement

adj: famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting

verb: to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troubling, menacing, or oppressive

verb: to make, manufacture; to make up, invent

adj: angry

noun: raider, plunderer

noun: excessive fatness

noun: an extremely poor person

verb: steal in small quantities

noun: a split, break, breach

noun: a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition

verb: to overcome, rise above

verb: bring to an end

adj: commonplace; overused, stale

• verb: to seize and hold a position by force or without right
• Syn: seize illegally, comandeer, supplant

V: to run off and hide

• Noun: approach or admittence to places, persons, things; an increase
• Verb: to get at, obtain

Noun: lack of govmt and law; confusion

Adj: hard to do, requiring much effort

Adj: favorable; fortuanate

Adj: favoring one side unduly; prejudiced

Verb: to overcome with fear, intimidate; to disheaten, discourage

Verb: to free from tangles or complications

Adj: determined in advance by destiny or fortune

Verb: to mislead by a trick, decieve

Adj: not having life; without energy or spirit

Verb: burn to ashes

Adj: very brave, fearless, unshakable

Noun: theft

Adj: bending readily; easily influenced

Adj: overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious

Noun: a very steep cliff; thr brink or edge of a disaster

Verb: to make right

• Noun: a temporary relief or delay
• Verb: to grant a postponement

Verb: to attack with words, call bad names

noun: a person who takes part in a crime

verb: to destroy completely

adj: ureasonable; based on ones wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness

adj: shameless, impudent; made of brass

noun: a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that causes change

noun: a large-scale departure or flight

verb: to make easier; to assist

adj: not able to be corrected; beyond control

adj: hidden; present but not realized

• adj: given to fighting; active and aggressive in support of a cause
• noun: an activist

adj: having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable

adj: not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid

adj: chief in importance, above all others

• verb: to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; to babble
• noun: baby talk; babble

verb: to offer arguments or evidence that contradicts an assertion; to refute

• verb: to scold; find fault with
• noun: a rebuke

noun: slavery, forced labor

adj: careless and hastey

adj: not running or flowing; foul from standing still; inactive, sluggish, dull

verb: to give way to superior force, yield

Verb: to make up for

Noun: slavery; any state of being held down

Adj: believable

Verb: to pay for

Adj: hardworking, industrious, not lazy

Adj: sad; dreary

Adj: frightful, horrible; deathly pale

Verb: to hold back

Verb: to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to

Adj: poor, in a state of poverty; depleted

Adj: never stopping, going on all the time

Adj: complicated; difficult to understand

Adj: easy to understand, clear; rational, sane

Adj: occuring or published after death

Adj: overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish

Adj: grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic

Adj: exceeding what is sufficient or required, ecxess

Verb: take the place of, supersede

• Verb: to jeer at, mock
• Noun: an insulting or mocking remark

Adj: holding fast; holding firmly together; persistent

• Int: "Farewell!"
• Noun: a farrwell

Noun: an arrival; coming into place or view

Noun: the highest point, tip

Verb: absorb fully or make one's own; adoot as one's own; adapt fully

Adj: false, counterfeit

Adj: unreasonably high; excessive

Noun: the time between

Verb: to flood, overflow; overwhelm by numbers or size

• Verb: speak evil of, slander
• Adj: evil

• Verb: wander about, wind about
• Noun: sharp turn or twist

Noun: a large city; chief city of an area

Adj: very important

Adj: noisy; unruly, disorderly

Adj: thoughtful; melancholy

Adj: dangerous

Adj: of poor quality; characterized by inferior workmanship

Adj: lively, full of life; spicy, flavorful

Adj: angry and bad-tempered; rude

Noun: a long, angry speech, usually very critical

• Noun: an idle wanderer, tramp
• Adj: wandering, aimlessly

Noun: freedom from doubt, self-confidence

Noun: an institution for the care of children, elderly people, etc.; a place of safety

• Verb: to comfortr
• Noun: the keyboard of an organ; a control panel for an electrical or mechanical device

Verb: make or become larger or wider; to expand upon

Noun: refuse, waste products

Verb: to lessen, diminish

Adj: lacking in seriousness; disrespectful, saucy

Noun: resistance to disease; freedom from some charge or obligation

• Verb: to establish, set up
• Noun: an organization for the promotion of learning

Noun: a debt; something disadvantageous

Adj: ridiculous, senseless

Adj: quarrelsome, fond of fighting

Adj: furious, violently intense, unreasonably extreme, mad; infected with rabies

Noun: a kingdom; a region or field of study

Verb: make young again, make like new

Verb: to reward, pay, reimburse

Adj: meager, scant; scattered

Adj: genuine, excellent; made of silver of standard fineness

• Noun: a risky or daring undertaking
• Verb: to expose to danger; to dare

• Verb: twist out of shape
• Noun: an abnormality