Vocabulary Workshop Level A, Unit 1 Words 1-8

plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose

• expressly

• forsake

• besiege

• dispatch

a folded cloth or pad applied to an injury or cut

• denounce

• compress

• famine

• dispatch

an official message, promptness, speed

• douse

• immense

• dispatch

• inept

to attack by surrounding with military forces

• dispatch

• inept

• apparel

• besiege

to plunge into a liquid

• douse

• compress

• ingenious

• expressly

to put clothes on; dress up

• libel

• apparel

• forsake

• famished

to condemn openly; to accuse formally

• denounce

• forsake

• libel

• besiege

to press together; to reduce in size or volume

• besiege

• recede

• compress

• expressly

suffering severly from hunger or from a lack of something

• forsaken

• besieged

• famished

• compressed

plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose

• misgiving

• besiege

• expressly

• compress