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vocab Unit 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abdicate | v. resign from or formally renounce the throne |
| bestow | v. give as a gift |
| capacious | adj. able to hold much, roomy |
| caustic | adj. able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic |
| crusade | n. a strong movement to advance a cause or idea; 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 |
| 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 |
| fallacy | n. a false notion or belief; an error in thinking |
| 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 |
| negate | v. to nullify, deny, bring to nothing |
| pivotal | adj. vitally important, essential |
| recipient | n. one who recieves; adj. receiving, able 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. Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as 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 |