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S.A.T. Words 11/21/13
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English
8th Grade
11/21/2013

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Term
Admonish
Definition

To caution or advise against somthing.

 

Sny: warn, call on carpet

 

Ant: praise, pat on the back

Term
Breach
Definition

An opening, gap

 

Ant: close, seal

Term
Brigand
Definition

Bandit, robber

 

 

Term
Circumspect
Definition

Careful, Cautious

 

Syn: wary, guarded

Ant: incautious, rash, reckless, heedless

Term
Commandeer
Definition

to sieze for military use

 

Syn: take over, requisltion

Term
Cumberstone
Definition

clumsy, hard to handel, slow moving

 

Syn: unwieldy, ponderous

 

Ant: manageable, easy to handle

Term
Deadlock
Definition

A stand still resultiong from the opposition of two equal forces or factions, bring to a standstill

 

Sny: Standoff, stalemate, impasse 

 

Ant: agreement, acord, break through

Term
Debris
Definition

Scaddered fragments, wreckage 

 

Sny: rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam 

Term
Diffuse
Definition

To spread or to scatter freely or widley

OR

wordy, long-winded or unfocused

 

Sny: Desperse OR rambling, verbose, prollx

 

Ant: concentrate OR brief, concise, succient 

Term
Dilemma
Definition

A diffucult or perplexing situation or problem 

 

Sny: Predicament, quandary, pickle, bind

 

Ant: cinch

Term
Efface
Definition

To wipe off, to keep ones self from being unnoticed 

 

Sny: blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge

Term
Muddle
Definition

To make a mess of OR a hopless mess

 

Syn: jumple, mess up OR confusion, disorder

 

Ant: Orderliness, tidiness, neatness

Term
Opinionated
Definition

Stubborn and iften unreasonable in hilding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind

 

Sny: obstinate, pig headed, inflexible

 

Ant: Open-minded, reasonable

Term
Perennial
Definition

Long lasting

OR

a plant that lives for many years

 

Sny: Enduring, recruing

 

Ant: breif, short lived

Term
Predispose
Definition

To incline beforehand

 

Sny: make suceptible to

 

Ant: Immuize against, sheild from

Term
Relinquish
Definition

Let go, give up

 

Sny: surrender, abandon

 

Ant: hold on to, keep, retain, cling to

Term
Salvage
Definition

To save from shipwreck OR properly thus saved

 

Sny: Rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim

 

Ant: abandon, scrap, junk

Term
Spasmodic
Definition

Sudden and Viloent, but breif, fitful, intermittent

 

Sny: irregualr, occosinal

 

Ant: Steady, continuous, chronic

Term
Spurious
Definition

Not genuine, Not true, Not valid

 

Sny: False, counterfit, fraudelent 

 

Ant: genuine, authentic, bona firde, valid

Term
Unbridled
Definition

Uncontrolled, lacking constraint

 

Sny: unrestrained, unchecked

 

Ant: restrained, held in check, muted

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