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Vocabulary Test 1a
6th Grade Languarge Arts Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apparel | n. clothing that which serves as dress or decoration, put clothes on, dress up. |
| besiege | (v.) to attack by surrounding with military forces: or trouble. |
| compress | (v.) to press together, to reduce in size or volume. (n.) cloth or pad applied to injury |
| denounce | (v.) to condemn openly: to accuse formally |
| dispatch | (v.) to send off or out for a purpose (n.) a message |
| douse | (v.) to plunge into a liquid, drench, to put out a light or fire quickly. |
| expressly | (adv) plainly, in so many words: for a particular purpose. |
| famished | (adj) suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something. |
| forsake | (v.) to give up, renounce, to leave, abandon |
| gainful | (adj) profitable: bringing in money or some special advantage. |
| immense | (adj) very large or great: beyond ordinary means of measurement. |
| inept | (adj) totally without skill or appropriateness |
| ingenious | (adj) showing remarkable orginality, inventiveness or resourcefulness, clever. |
| instantaneous | (adj done in an instant, immediatie |
| irk | (v.) to annoy, trouble, make weary |
| libel | (n.) written statement of unfairly or falsely harms the reputation of the person about whom ist is made. (v. to write or publish such a statement. |
| misgiving | (n,) a feeling of fear, doubt or uncertainty |
| oaf | (n) a stupid person, a big clumsy, slow individual |
| recede | (v.)to go or move backward, to become more distant. |
| repast | (n.) a meal, food |
| Antonyms | opposite in meaning |
| synonyms | nearly the same in meaning |
| How do you solve an Analogy | find the relationshop between the key words. |