English 9 Unit 1 Vocabulary

Identify the word that means the same as the ALL CAPS word in the introductory phrase.

ADMONISH the participants

• caution

• envy

• despise

• encourage

Identify the word that means the same as the ALL CAPS word in the introductory phrase.

understand the DILEMMA

• predicament

• theory

• question

• solution

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OPINIONATED senator

• inflexible

• talkative

• elected

• surprising

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DIFFUSE information

• ignore

• disperse

• collect

• plant

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scattered fragments, wreckage

• debris

• breach

• dilemma

• deadlock

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to seize for military or official use

• commandeer

• diffuse

• salvage

• relinquish

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an opening, gap

• muddle

• breach

• salvage

• deadlock

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a bandit

• perennial

• breach

• brigand

• salvage

Although the Vice President presides over the U.S. Senate, he or she has the right to cast what will be the deciding vote only in the case of a _____.

• brigand

• breach

• perennial

• deadlock

Occasional rumblings and _____ puffs of smoke indicated that the volcano was far from dormant.

• spasmodic

• perennial

• spurious

• opinionated