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Admonish

(v) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

Breach

(n) An opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; (v) to create an opening, break through

Brigand

(n) A bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman

Circumspect

(adj) Careful, cautions

commandeer

(v) To seize for military or official use

Cumbersome

(adj) Clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving

Deadlock

(n) A standstill resulting frim the opposition of two equal forces or fractions; (v) to bring to such a stanstill

Debris

(n) Scattered fragments, wreckage

Diffuse

(v) To spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj) wordy, long-winded, or unforced; scattered or widely spread

Dilemma

(n) A difficult or perplexing situation or problem

Efface

(v) To wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed

Muddle

(v) To make a mess of ; muddle through : to get by; (n) a hopeless mess

Opinionated

(adj) Stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind

Perennial

(adj) Lastkng for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that lives for many years

Predispose

(v) To incline to beforehand

Relinquish

(v) To let go, give up

Salvage

(v) To save from fire or shipwreck; (n) property thus saved

Spasmodic

(adj) Sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent

Spurious

(Adj) Not genuine, not true, not valid

Unbridled

(adj) Lacking in restraint