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English Vocab
Unit 1
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English
9th Grade
09/19/2006

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perennial
Definition
lasting for a long time, persistent;
enduring, recurring
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predispose
Definition
to incline beforehand; make susceptible to
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relinquish
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to let go or give up; surrender or abandon
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salvage
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save from fire or shipwreck; resucue, recover, retreive, reclaim
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spasmotic
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sudden and violent but brief; irregular, occasional
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spurious
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not genuine, not true, not valid; false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus
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unbridled
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uncontrolled, lacking in restraint; unrestrained, unchecked
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opinionated
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stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind; obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible
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muddle
Definition
to make a mess of, to get by; jumble, mess up, confusion, disorder
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efface
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to wipe out, to keep oneself from being noticed; blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge
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dilemma
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a difficult or perplexing situation or problem; predicament, quandary, pickle, bind
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diffuse
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to spread or scatter freely or widely, scattered or widely spread; disperse, rambling, verbose, prolix
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debris
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scattered fragments, wreckage; rubble, detrius, flotsam and jetsam
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deadlock
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the refusal of labor and management to modify their demands; standoff, stalemate, impasse
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cumbersome
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hard to handle, slow-moving; unwieldy, ponderous
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admonish
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to caution or advise against something, to scold mildly or remind of a duty; warn, call on the carpet
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breach
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an opening, gap, rupture, to create an opening, to break through
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circumspect
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careful, cautious; wary, prudent, guarded
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