Unit 1

n. clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration
v. to put clothes on, dress up

• compress
• denounce
• apparel
• douse

If the kids ______________ our snow fort we will definitely lose the snowball fight. 

• besiege
• ingenious
• immense
• forsake

syn. condense, shrink
ant. enlarge, swell

• inept
• gainful
• repast
• compress

v. to condemn openly, to accuse formally

• dispatch
• gainful
• denounce
• misgiving

The company said they would ____________ a repair crew as soon as the storm ended. 

• gainful
• libel
• dispatch
• instantaneous

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

v. to plunge into a liquid, drench, to put out quickly, extinguish

• douse
• irk
• oaf
• recede

The teacher ______________ explained the directions to the test before the students began. 

• ingenious
• gainful
• expressly
• libel

syn. hungry, starving
ant. well fed, full, satisfied

• denounce
• gainful
• famished
• ingenious

v. to give up, renounce, to leave, abandon

• forsake
• recede
• repast
• misgiving

My mom wants me to find a __________ job mowing yards this summer. 

• inept
• besiege
• libel
• gainful