Vocabulary Workshop Level A Unit 1

(n.) a stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual

(v.) to go or move backward; to become more distant

(v.) to give up, renounce; to leave; abandon

(v.) to annoy, trouble, make weary

(v.) to send off or out for a purpose

(n.) a meal, food

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

(adj.) profitable; bringing in money or some special advantage

(adj.) done in an instant; immediate

(v.) to press together; (n.) a folded cloth or pad applied to an injury

to attack by surrounding with military forces; to cause worry or trouble

(v.) to condemn openly; to accuse formally

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

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

(adj.) totally without skill or appropriateness

(n.) a feeling of fear, doubt, uncertainty

(v.) to plinge into a liquid, drench; to put out quickly, extinguish

showing remarkable originality, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever

(n.) a written statement that unfairly or falsely harms the reputation

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