Unit 1 Vocabulary

a meal, food

• repast

• famished

• douse

• forsake

to go or move backward; to become more distant

• recede

• irk

• besiege

• douse

a stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual

• oaf

• libel

• misgiving

• inept

clothing, that which serves as dress or decorations

• apparel

• forsake

• ingenious

• compress

to attack by surrounding with military forces; to cause worry or trouble

• besiege

• dispatch

• libel

• misgiving

to press together; to reduce in size or volume

• compress

• repast

• gainful

• irk

a folded cloth or pad applied to an injury

• compress

• apparel

• douse

• inept

to condemn openly; to accuse formally

• denounce

• douse

• expressly

• forsake

to send off or out for a purpose; to kill

• dispatch

• besiege

• expressly

• libel

an official message; promptness, speed; the act of killing

• dispatch

• denounce

• immense

• gainful