Unit 1 Vocab - English 6th grade

Match the following

• dispatch

• to accuse, to condemn

• besiege

• to send off for a purpose

• denounce

• To press together; to reduce in size

• compress

• To attack by surrounding

• apparel

• Clothing that serves as dress or decoration

Match the following

• douse

• to drench, to plunge into a liquid

• forsake

• to give up, renounce, to abandon

• expressly

• plainly, in so many words

• gainful

• suffering from hunger severely, lack of something

• famished

• profitable, bringing in money or advantage

clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration

to attack by surrounding

to press together, to reduce in size or volume

to condemn openly, to accuse formally

to send off or out for a purpose

to plunge into a liquid, drench, to put out quickly, extinguish

plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose

suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something