Vocabulary Workshop Level A Unit 1

(adj.) done in an instant; immediate

• douse

• apparel

• instantaneous

• inept

(adj.) profitable; bringing in money or some special advantage

• gainful

• ingenious

• recede

• libel

(v.) to send off or out for a purpose; to kill; (n.) an official message; promptness, speed; the act of killing

• compress

• forsake

• repast

• dispatch

(adj.) totally without skill or appropriateness

• famished

• inept

• besiege

• misgiving

(adv.) plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose

• expressly

• denounce

• immense

• irk

(adj., part.) suffering severely from hunger or from a lack of something

• douse

• oaf

• famished

• instantaneous

(v.) to attack by surrounding with military forces; to cause worry or trouble

• besiege

• gainful

• libel

• recede

(n.) a written statement that unfairly or falsely harms the reputation of the person about whom it is made; (v.) to write or publish such a statement

• oaf

• compress

• immense

• libel

(n.) a stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual

• irk

• oaf

• denounce

• forsake

(v.) to press together, to reduce in size or volume; (n.) a folded cloth or pad applied to an injury

• repast

• expressly

• gainful

• compress