| A | B |
|---|
| apparel | clothing; to put clothes on, dress up |
| besiege | to attack by surrounding with military forces |
| compress | to press together, to reduce in size or volume |
| denounce | to condemn openly |
| dispatch | to send off or out for a purpose; to kill; an official message |
| douse | to lunge into a liquid; drench |
| expressly | plainly, in so many words |
| famished | suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something |
| forsake | to give up, renounce |
| gainful | profitable; bringing in money |
| immense | very large or great |
| inept | totally without skill or appropriateness |
| ingenious | showing remarkable originality |
| instantaneous | done in an instant |
| irk | to annoy, trouble |
| libel | a statement that unfairly or falsely harms a person's reputation |
| misgiving | a feeling of fear |
| oaf | a stupid person |
| recede | to go or move backward |
| repast | a meal, food |
