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U1 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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OBSTACLE | something that impedes progress or achievement |
obstacle | Ghost encounters a serious _____ with his father and must escape with his mother to survive. |
COURAGE | mental and moral strength |
courage | It took _____ for Ghost to go back into the house where his father attacked him and his mother. |
APPAREL | clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration |
apparel | to put clothes on, dress up |
DISPATCH | an official message; promptness, speed; the act of killing |
dispatch | to send off or out for a purpose; to kill |
FORSAKE | to give up, renounce; to leave, abandon |
forsake | I will never forsake my children, no matter what they do or say. |
INGENIOUS | showing remarkable originality, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever |
ingenious | The students found an ingenious solution to the math problem. |
MISGIVING | a feeling of fear, doubt, or uncertainty |
misgiving | They had misgivings about joining the chorus because of its demanding schedule. |
denounce | To condemn openly; to accuse formally |
famished | suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something |
inept | totally without skill or appropriateness |
libel | a written statement that unfairly or falsely harms the reputation about whom it is made |
repast | a meal, food |
BESIEGE | to attack by surrounding with military forces |
besiege | to cause worry or trouble |
compress | to press together; to reduce in size or volume |
DOUSE | to plunge into a liquid, drench |
douse | to put out quickly, extinguish |
gainful | profitable; bringing in money of some special advantage |
Willpower | a stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual |
expressly | plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose |
immense | very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement |
instantaneous | done in an instant; immediate |
irk | to annoy, trouble, make weary |
recede | to go or move backward |