5 words a day (second attempt) - day 7

Had a little break, but I am not giving up. The method's been changed a little, however, - now, instead of writing sentences containing words I come across in press articles or tv series, I follow a list of top 15 000 most frequently English words available at http://www.audiencedialogue.net/bnc15knum.txt.
I will see if it works. If yes, I will carry on with the method. If not, I will just get back to the old one.

1) gulf (noun)

A gulf is deep inlet of water basin almost fully surrounded by land with a relatively limited access of moving waters.

2) plaintiff (noun)

The plaintiff accused the homeless man of stealing her purse.

3) readily (noun)

He readily agreed to their proposition and said they can start the work next Monday.

4) deploy (verb)

The troops have been deployed along the Mexican border.

5) overshoot (verb)

Rooney had a great opportunity to decide clinch [I'm almost 100% sure it's not the word that should be used here, but I can't think of anything better] the game in the last minute, but, unfortunately overshot.(he came close to scoring a deciding goal, but overshot. I have even seen it being called a goal-deciding goal, So you were close to what you wanted to say. The decider for the game came in the last minute when he scored a goal. )