Freshman Vocabulary 1.1

To caution, scold, or advise against

• Breach

• Deadlock

• Admonish

• Diffuse

A difficult or perplexing situation

• Diffuse

• Cumbersome

• Admonish

• Dilemma

An opening or a gap

• Breach

• Cumbersome

• Deadlock

• Debris

To spread or scatter widely or thinly

• Commandeer

• Diffuse

• Brigand

• Breach

A bandit, especially a band of robbers

• Circumspect

• Admonish

• Brigand

• Cumbersome

Scattered fragments or wreckage

• Deadlock

• Debris

• Breach

• Circumspect

Watchful, discreet, cautious

• Brigand

• Admonish

• Cumbersome

• Circumspect

A state in which progress is impossible (opposing forces)

• Dilemma

• Brigand

• Deadlock

• Breach

To take control of something (sometimes for official use)

• Diffuse

• 1. Commandeer

• Admonish

• Breach

Burdensome, troublesome, akward

• Diffuse

• Deadlock

• Cumbersome

• Circumspect