Vocabulary Unit 1-12
For my spelling bee/final oral vocab test. Chapters 1-12
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- famished
- (adj. part.) suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something / syn. hungry, starving, ravenous
- forsake
- (v.) to give up, renounce; to leave, abandon / syn. desert, disown
- compress
- (v.) to press together; to reduce in size or volume; (n.) a folded cloth or pac applied to an injury / syn. condense, shrink, shorten
- apparel
- (n.) clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration; (v.) to put clothes on, dress up / syn. (n.) attire, garments; (v.) deck out
- expressly
- (adv.) plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose / syn. clearly, pointedly, explicitly
- denounce
- (v.) to condemn openly; to accuse formally / syn. criticize, censure
- immense
- (adj.) very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement / syn. vast enormous, immeasurable, gigantic
- gainful
- (adj.) profitable; bringing in money or some special advantage / syn. moneymaking, paying
- inept
- (adj.) totally without skill or appropriateness / syn. clumsy, unskilled, bungling, incompetent
- besiege
- (v.) to attack by surrounding with military forces; to cause worry or trouble / syn. blockade, encircle, pressure, hound
- dispatch
- (v.) to send off or out for a purpose; to kill; (n.) an official message; promptness, speed; the act of killing / syn. (v.) slay; (n.) report, communication
- ingenious
- (adj.) showing remarkable originality, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever / syn. imaginative, inventive, resourceful
- douse
- (v.) to plunge into a liquid, drench; to put out quickly, extinguish / syn. submerge, soak, dunk, immerse