v. to cause or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

Syn: warn, call on the carpet

Ant: praise, pat on the back

n) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction

v) to create an opening; break through

Ant: v) close, seal

adj) careful, cautious

Syn: wary, prudent, guarded

Ant: incautious, rash, reckless, heedless

v) to seize for military or official use

Syn: take over, requisition, expropriate

adj) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving

Syn: unweildy, ponderous

Ant: manageable, easy to handle

n) a standstill resulting form opposition of two equal forces for factions

v) to bring to such a standstill

Syn: n) standoff, stalemate, impasse

Ant: n) agreement, accord, breakthrough 

v)to spread or scatter freely or widely

adj) wordy, long-winded, unfocused; scattered or widely spread

Syn: v) disperse adj) rambling, verbose, prolix

Ant: v) concentrate adj) concise, succicnt, brief

n) a diffilcut or perplexing situation or problem

Syn: predicament, quandary, pickle, bind

Ant: cinch

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

Syn: blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge

v) to make a mess of; muddle through: to get by

n) a hopeless mess

Syn: v) jumble, mess up n) confusion, disorder

Ant: n) orderliness, tidiness, neatness

Adj) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind.

Syn: obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible

Ant: open-minded, reasonable

adj) lasting for a long time, persistent

n) a plant that lives for many years

Syn: adj) enduring, recurring

Ant: adj) brief, short-lived, fleeting, epehemeral

v) to incline to beforehand

Syn: make susceptible to

Ant: immunize against, shield from

v) to let go, give up

Syn:  surrender, abandon

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

v) to save form fire or shipwreck

n) property hus saved 

Syn: v) rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim

Ant: v) abandon, scrap, junk

adj) sudden and violent but brief, fitful, intermittent

Syn: irregular, occasional

Ant: steady, continuous, chronic

adj) not true, not valid, not genuine

Syn: flase, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus

Ant: genuine, authintic, bona fide, valid

adj) uncontrolled, lacking in restraint

Syn: unrestrained, unchecked

Ant: restrained, held in check, muted

n) scattered fragments, wreckage

Syn: rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam