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unit 12 vocabualry
| abdicate | v.) to resign, formally give up an office or a duty |
| bestow | (v.) to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings |
| capacious | (adj.) able to hold much; roomy |
| caustic | able to burn or eat away by chemical action; sarcastic |
| crusade | (n.) a strong movement to advance a cause or idea |
| deface | to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of |
| embargo | an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods |
| fallacy | n.) a false notion or belief; an error in thinking |
| levity | (n.) a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect |
| mendicant | (n.)beggar |
| nauseate | (v.) to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust |
| negate | (v.) to nullify, deny, bring to nothing |
| pivotal | (adj.) vitally important, essential |
| recipient | adj.) receiving; able to willing to receive |
| ruse | (n.) an action designed to confuse or mislead a trick |
| teem | (v.) to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities |
| tenet | n.) an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true |
| tractable | (adj.) easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable |
| ungainly | (adj.) clumsy, awkward; unwieldy |
| voracious | (adj.) having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager |