Vocabulary Workshop: Unit 1

Question 1

admonish

Answer 1

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

Question 2

breach

Answer 2

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

Question 3

brigand

Answer 3

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

Question 4

circumspect

Answer 4

(adj.) careful, cautious.

Question 5

commandeer

Answer 5

(v.) to seize for military or official use.

Question 6

cumbersome

Answer 6

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

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.

Question 8

debris

Answer 8

(n.) scattered fragments, wreckage.

Question 9

diffuse

Answer 9

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

Question 10

dilemma

Answer 10

(n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem.

Question 11

efface

Answer 11

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

Question 12

muddle

Answer 12

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

Question 13

opinionated

Answer 13

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

Question 14

perennial

Answer 14

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

Question 15

predipose

Answer 15

(v.) to incline to beforehand.

Question 16

relinquish

Answer 16

(v.) to let go, give up.

Question 17

salvage

Answer 17

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

Question 18

spasmodic

Answer 18

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

Question 19

spurious

Answer 19

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

Question 20

unbridled

Answer 20

(adj.) lacking in restraint.