Unit 1 vocabulary

Question 1

A meal: food, victuals

Answer 1

repast

Question 2

To bother, annoy, irritate, vex

Answer 2

irk

Question 3

clumsy, unskilled, bungling, incompetent

Answer 3

inept

Question 4

A slander, slur; to smear, bad-mouth

Answer 4

libel

Question 5

vast, enormous; immeasurable, gigantic

Answer 5

immense

Question 6

When you are really hungry, even the simplest of foods will be a delicious_____________.

Answer 6

Repast

Question 7

When playing tensor the first time, you might find that your attempts to hit the ball are very_________.

Answer 7

inept

Question 8

On my first baby-sitting job, I learned that on must have________ patience.

Answer 8

immense

Question 9

imaginative, inventive, resourceful, clever

Answer 9

ingenious

Question 10

A bonehead, dunce; a clod, lout

Answer 10

oaf

Question 11

clothing attire, garments; to deck out

Answer 11

apparel

Question 12

to retreat, go back, back up, ebb

Answer 12

recede

Question 13

a doubt, worry, qualm, hesitation

Answer 13

misgiving

Question 14

your school________ can be neat and attractive without being expensive

Answer 14

apparel

Question 15

we couldn’t figure out how the__________ magician managed to escape from the locked truck

Answer 15

ingenious

Question 16

She had no right to call me a clumsy________ just because I spilled some water on her.

Answer 16

oaf

Question 17

To condemn, criticize, censure

Answer 17

denounce

Question 18

Clearly, pointedly, explicitly

Answer 18

expressly

Question 19

To slay, a report, communication

Answer 19

dispatch

Question 20

To desert, abandon, give up, disown

Answer 20

forsake

Question 21

To submerge, soak, dunk, immerse

Answer 21

douse

Question 22

the terms of our agreement ____________ forbid jus from taking any of the goods for our own use

Answer 22

expressly

Question 23

Lets make certain to __________ the fire before we leave the camp.

Answer 23

douse

Question 24

Some people hailed the man as a genius; others _____________ him as a quack.

Answer 24

denounced

Question 25

To condense; shrink; shorten

Answer 25

compress

Question 26

Hungry, starving, ravenous

Answer 26

famished

Question 27

Prompt, quick, speedy

Answer 27

Instantaneous

Question 28

Moneymaking, paying, profitable

Answer 28

gainful

Question 29

To blockade,encircle, to pressure, hound

Answer 29

besiege

Question 30

If you ________ all the items as mutes possible, you’ll be able to fit everything in one suitcase

Answer 30

compress

Question 31

Since it was well past their lunchtime by the time we arrived home, the children were ___________.

Answer 31

famished

Question 32

Some live’s rewards are ______________; others are a long time in coming.

Answer 32

instantaneous