Unit 12

Question 1

to resign, formally give up an office or a duty

Answer 1

abdicate

Question 2

to disown, discard

Answer 2

abdicate

Question 3

to give as a gift

Answer 3

bestow

Question 4

to provide with lodgings

Answer 4

bestow

Question 5

able to hold much, roomy

Answer 5

capacious

Question 6

able to burn or eat away by chemical action

Answer 6

caustic

Question 7

biting, sarcastic

Answer 7

caustic

Question 8

a strong movement to advance a cause or idea

Answer 8

crusade

Question 9

to campaign, work vigorously

Answer 9

crusade

Question 10

to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of

Answer 10

deface

Question 11

to damage the value, influence, or effect of

Answer 11

deface

Question 12

to face down, outshine

Answer 12

deface

Question 13

an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods

Answer 13

embargo

Question 14

any restraint or hindrance

Answer 14

embargo

Question 15

to forbid to enter or leave port

Answer 15

embargo

Question 16

to forbid trade with

Answer 16

embargo

Question 17

a false notion or belief

Answer 17

fallacy

Question 18

an error in thinking

Answer 18

fallacy

Question 19

a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect

Answer 19

levity

Question 20

buoyancy, lightness in weight

Answer 20

levity

Question 21

beggar

Answer 21

mendicant

Question 22

depending on begging for a living

Answer 22

mendicant

Question 23

to make sick to the stomach

Answer 23

nauseate

Question 24

to fill with disgust

Answer 24

nauseate

Question 25

to nullify, deny, bring to nothing

Answer 25

negate

Question 26

vitally important, essential

Answer 26

pivotal

Question 27

one who receives

Answer 27

recipient

Question 28

receiving, able or willing to receive

Answer 28

recipient

Question 29

an action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick

Answer 29

ruse

Question 30

to become filled to overflowing

Answer 30

teem

Question 31

to be present in large quantities

Answer 31

teem

Question 32

an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true

Answer 32

tenet

Question 33

easily managed, easy to deal with

Answer 33

tractable

Question 34

easily wrought, malleable

Answer 34

tractable

Question 35

clumsy, awkward

Answer 35

ungainly

Question 36

unwieldy

Answer 36

ungainly

Question 37

having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous

Answer 37

voracious

Question 38

excessively eager

Answer 38

voracious

Question 39

s for abdicate

Answer 39

relinquish, renounce

Question 40

s for bestow

Answer 40

confer, lodge, put up

Question 41

s for capacious

Answer 41

spacious, commodious

Question 42

s for caustic

Answer 42

burning, corrosive, sharp

Question 43

s for crusade

Answer 43

campaign, organized movement

Question 44

s for deface

Answer 44

mar, disfigure

Question 45

s for embargo

Answer 45

stoppage, boycott

Question 46

s for fallacy

Answer 46

misconception

Question 47

s for levity

Answer 47

giddiness, flippancy, frivolity, fickleness

Question 48

s for mendicant

Answer 48

panhandler

Question 49

s for nauseate

Answer 49

sicken, disgust

Question 50

s for negate

Answer 50

invalidate, annul

Question 51

s for pivotal

Answer 51

crucial, critical, decisive, seminal

Question 52

s for recipient

Answer 52

receiver, beneficiary

Question 53

s for ruse

Answer 53

stratagem, subterfuge, dodge

Question 54

s for teem

Answer 54

abound, swarm, overflow

Question 55

s for tenet

Answer 55

doctrine, precept

Question 56

s for tractable

Answer 56

submissive, docile, yielding, amenable

Question 57

s for ungainly

Answer 57

graceless

Question 58

s for voracious

Answer 58

gluttonous, insatiable, avid

Question 59

a for abdicate

Answer 59

Retain

Question 60

a for bestow

Answer 60

receive, take, take back, take away

Question 61

a for capacious

Answer 61

cramped, confined, restricted, narrow

Question 62

a for caustic

Answer 62

bland, mild, sugary, saccharine

Question 63

a for deface

Answer 63

repair, restore, renovate, recondition

Question 64

a for fallacy

Answer 64

sound reasoning, logic

Question 65

a for levity

Answer 65

humorlessness, solemnity

Question 66

a for mendicant

Answer 66

millionaire, philanthropist

Question 67

a for nauseate

Answer 67

delight, tickle pink

Question 68

a for negate

Answer 68

aver, corroborate, buttress

Question 69

a for pivotal

Answer 69

unimportant, insignificant

Question 70

a for recipient

Answer 70

donor, benefactor, contributor

Question 71

a for teem

Answer 71

lack, be wanting

Question 72

a for tractable

Answer 72

unruly, obstreperous, refractory

Question 73

a for ungainly

Answer 73

nimble, agile, supple, graceful

Question 74

a for voracious

Answer 74

indifferent, apathetic