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Vocabulary Unit 12
Question | Answer |
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Abdicate | (v.) To resign, formally give up an office or a duty; to disown, discard. |
Capacious | (adj.) Able to hold much, roomy. |
Crusade | (n.) A strong movement to advance a cause or idea. (v.) To campaign, work vigorously. |
Deface | (v.) To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value, influence, or effect of; to face down, outshine. |
Fallacy | (n.) A false notion or belief; am error in thinking. |
Negate | (v.) To nullify, deny, bring to nothing. |
Pivotal | (adj.) Vitally important, essential. |
Recipient | (n.) One who receives. (adj.) Receiving; able or willing to receive. |
Tenet | (n.) An option, belief, or principle held to be true. |
Ungainly | (adj.) Clumsy, awkward; unwieldy. |
Bestow | (v.) To give as a gift; to provide with lodgings. |
Caustic | (adj.) Able to burn or eat away by chemical action. |
Embargo | (n.) An order forbidding the race in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hindrance. (v.) To forbid to enter or leave port: to forbid take with. |
Bestow | (v.) give as a gift. |
Caustic | (adj.) able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic. |
Embargo | (n.) an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hindrance; v. to forbid to enter or leave port; to forbid trade with. |
Levity | n. lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity; lightness of manner. |
Mendicant | (n.) , a beggar; v. depending on begging for a living. |
Nauseate | (n.) to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust. |
Ruse | (n.) an action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick. |
Teem | (v.) to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities. |
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 |