SVW U1 W1 Vocabulary

(v) To attack by surrounding with military forces; to cause worry or trouble.

• besiege

• compress

• douse

The editor helped (?) my rambling 25-page mystery into an 8 page thriller.

• compress

• dispatch

• irk

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• (adj) profitable; bringing in money or special advantage

• famished

• (v) to plunge into a liquid, drench; to put out quickly, extinguish

• douse

• (adj., part.) suffering severely from hunger or from a lack of something

• dispatch

• (adj) showing remarkable originality, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever

• ingenious

• (V) to send off or out for purposes; to kill

  (n) an official message, promptness, speed

• gainful

Instead of feeling (?) because you failed a test, why don't you study harder in the future?

• doused

• irked

• receded

At the beginning of the fairy tale, a tiny OAF meets a traveler and offers to grant him three wishes

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"Ebb" and "recede" are SYNONYMS that mean the same thing.

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(n) clothing that which serves as dress or decoration; (v) to put clothes on, dress up

• apparel

• libel

• repast

(v) denounce

• to condemn openly; to accuse formally

• a written statement that harms someone's reputation

• a meal, food

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• (adv) plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose

• instantaneous

• (adj) totally without skill or appropriateness

• immense

• (adj) done in an instant; immediate

• forsake

• (adj) very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement

• inept

• (v) to give up, renounce; to leave or abandon

• expressly

The laws of this land do not shield public figures from just criticism, but they do protect them against LIBEL.

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