saldler unit one vocab

Question 1

admonish

Answer 1

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

Word used in sentence:
I admonish the dog for jumping on guests.

Question 2

breach

Answer 2

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

Word used in sentence:
I breach the locked door to get the air conditioning.

Question 3

brigand

Answer 3

(n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman

Word used in sentence:
The person robbing the bank is a brigand.

Question 4

circumspect

Answer 4

(adj.) careful, cautious

Word used in sentence:
I circumspect while handling a DvD.

Question 5

commandeer

Answer 5

(v.) to seize for military or official use

Word used in sentence:
The police commandeer the car.

Question 6

cumbersome

Answer 6

(adj.) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving

Word used in sentence:
It is cumbersome to climb a mountain.

Question 7

deadlock

Answer 7

(n. ) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions
(v. ) to bring to such a standstill

Word used in sentence:
I am in a deadlock against my competitor.

Question 8

debris

Answer 8

(n.) scattered fragments, wreckage

Word used in sentence:
The debris from the wrecked car is on the road.

Question 9

diffuse

Answer 9

(v.) to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj.) wordy, long winded, or
unfocused; scattered or widely spread

Word used in sentence:
The crowd diffused quickly.

Question 10

dilemma

Answer 10

(n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem

Word used in sentence:
I am in a dilemma about burgers or burritos.

Question 11

efface

Answer 11

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

Word used in sentence:
Over time the letters on the keyboard are effaced from use.

Question 12

muddle

Answer 12

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

Word used in sentence:
I muddled my room over the weekend.

Question 13

opinionated

Answer 13

(adj.) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one’s own
ideas, having a closed mind

Word used in sentence:
The politian was opinionated with his veiws.

Question 14

perennial

Answer 14

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

Word used in sentence:
God is perennial.

Question 15

predispose

Answer 15

(v.) to incline to beforehand

Word used in sentence:
I was predisposed to the movie by my friends

Question 16

relinquish

Answer 16

(v.) to let go, give up

Word used in sentence:
I relinquished my position as the CEO.

Question 17

salvage

Answer 17

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

Word used in sentence:
I will salvage what’s left of my car.

Question 18

spasmodic

Answer 18

(adj.) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent

Word used in sentence:
The spasmodic fight continued.

Question 19

spurious

Answer 19

(adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid

Word used in sentence:
The statistics on inflation are spurious.

Question 20

unbridled

Answer 20

(adj.) lacking in restraint

Word used in sentence:
The customer at Costco is unbridled at the free sample stand.