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8th Grade Unit 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to resign, give up an office | abdicate |
| to give as a gift | bestow |
| roomy, spacious | capacious |
| able to eat away by chemical reaction | caustic |
| a strong movement to advance an idea | crusade |
| to injure or destroy the appearance of | deface |
| to forbid to trade with | embargo |
| a false belief | fallacy |
| a lack of seriousness | levity |
| a beggar | mendicant |
| to make sick to the stomach | nauseate |
| to nullify | negate |
| vitally important | pivotal |
| one who receives | recipient |
| a trick | ruse |
| to become filled to overflowing | teem |
| an opinion, belief or principle held to be true | tenet |
| easily to manage, easy to deal with | tractable |
| clumsy, awkward | ungainly |
| having a huge appetite | voracious |