Flashcards in Unit 12 Deck (74)
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to resign, formally give up an office or a duty
abdicate
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to disown, discard
abdicate
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to give as a gift
bestow
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to provide with lodgings
bestow
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able to hold much, roomy
capacious
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able to burn or eat away by chemical action
caustic
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biting, sarcastic
caustic
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a strong movement to advance a cause or idea
crusade
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to campaign, work vigorously
crusade
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to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of
deface
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to damage the value, influence, or effect of
deface
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to face down, outshine
deface
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an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods
embargo
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any restraint or hindrance
embargo
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to forbid to enter or leave port
embargo
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to forbid trade with
embargo
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a false notion or belief
fallacy
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an error in thinking
fallacy
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a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect
levity
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buoyancy, lightness in weight
levity
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beggar
mendicant
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depending on begging for a living
mendicant
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to make sick to the stomach
nauseate
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to fill with disgust
nauseate
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to nullify, deny, bring to nothing
negate
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vitally important, essential
pivotal
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one who receives
recipient
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receiving, able or willing to receive
recipient
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an action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick
ruse
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to become filled to overflowing
teem
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to be present in large quantities
teem
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an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true
tenet
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easily managed, easy to deal with
tractable
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easily wrought, malleable
tractable
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clumsy, awkward
ungainly
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unwieldy
ungainly
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having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous
voracious
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excessively eager
voracious
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s for abdicate
relinquish, renounce
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s for bestow
confer, lodge, put up
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s for capacious
spacious, commodious
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s for caustic
burning, corrosive, sharp
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s for crusade
campaign, organized movement
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s for deface
mar, disfigure
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s for embargo
stoppage, boycott
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s for fallacy
misconception
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s for levity
giddiness, flippancy, frivolity, fickleness
48
s for mendicant
panhandler
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s for nauseate
sicken, disgust
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s for negate
invalidate, annul
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s for pivotal
crucial, critical, decisive, seminal
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s for recipient
receiver, beneficiary
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s for ruse
stratagem, subterfuge, dodge
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s for teem
abound, swarm, overflow
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s for tenet
doctrine, precept
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s for tractable
submissive, docile, yielding, amenable
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s for ungainly
graceless
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s for voracious
gluttonous, insatiable, avid
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a for abdicate
Retain
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a for bestow
receive, take, take back, take away
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a for capacious
cramped, confined, restricted, narrow
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a for caustic
bland, mild, sugary, saccharine
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a for deface
repair, restore, renovate, recondition
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a for fallacy
sound reasoning, logic
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a for levity
humorlessness, solemnity
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a for mendicant
millionaire, philanthropist
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a for nauseate
delight, tickle pink
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a for negate
aver, corroborate, buttress
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a for pivotal
unimportant, insignificant
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a for recipient
donor, benefactor, contributor
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a for teem
lack, be wanting
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a for tractable
unruly, obstreperous, refractory
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a for ungainly
nimble, agile, supple, graceful
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