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Unit 1 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 | Winter apparel should be warm and cozy. |
| DISPATCH | an official message; promptness, speed; the act of killing |
| dispatch | We’ll dispatch a repair crew right away. |
| 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 |
| denounce | |
| FAMISHED | suffering severely from hunger or from a lack of something |
| famished | |
| INEPT | totally without skill or appropriateness |
| inept | |
| LIBEL | a written statement that unfairly or falsely harms the reputation about whom it is made |
| libel | |
| REPAST | a meal, food |
| repast | |
| RESILIENCE | the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress |
| resilience | |
| BESIEGE | to attack by surrounding with military forces |
| besiege | |
| COMPRESS | a folded cloth or pad applied to an injury |
| compress | |
| DOUSE | to plunge into a liquid, drench |
| douse | |
| GAINFUL | profitable; bringing in money of some special advantage |
| gainful | |
| OAF | a stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual |
| WILLPOWER | strong determination that allows one to do something difficult |
| willpower | Ghost finally had the willpower to share his secret with his teammates |
| EXPRESSLY | plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose |
| expressly | |
| IMMENSE | very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement |
| immense | |
| INSTANTANEOUS | done in an instant; immediate |
| instantaneous | |
| IRK | to annoy, trouble, make weary |
| irk | |
| RECEDE | to go or move backward |
| recede | |
| ATTAIN | to achieve by effort |
| attain | Jeremy Lin was able to attain his goal of becoming a professional basketball player for the NBA. |
| HABIT | |
| habit | |
| CHALLENGE | |
| challenge | |
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