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Winter ___ should be warm and cozy.

• apparel

• inept

• dispatch

• compress

If troops ___ their stronghold, the rebel forces may be forced to surrender.

• besiege

• compress

• dispatch

• famished

The editor helped ___ my rambling 25-page mystery into an 8-page thrilled.

• compress

• denounce

• dispatch

• forsake

A cold ___ may soothe headache pain.

• compress

• apparel

• dispatch

• oaf

The United Nations will publicly ___ the tyrant's crimes.

• denounce

• dispatch

• recede

• douse

We'll ___ a repair crew right away.

• dispatch

• denounce

• forsake

• apparel

He approved the request with ___.

• dispatch

• repast

• libel

• irk

I'll ___ the flames with the hose.

• douse

• recede

• irk

• misgiving

At the meeting, parents ___ stated their approval of students wearing school uniforms.

• expressly

• gainful

• immense

• inept

The Vietnamese immigrants, new to a strange American city, were ___ for news of home.

• famished

• dispatch

• forsake

• inept