Vocabulary - Unit 12

Question 1

To resign, formally give up an office or a duty, to disown, discard

Answer 1

Abdicate

Question 2

(v.) to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings

Answer 2

Bestow

Question 3

able to hold much, roomy

Answer 3

Capacious

Question 4

(adj.) able to burn or eat away by chemcical action; biting, sarcastic

Answer 4

Caustic

Question 5

(n.) a strong movement to advance a casue or idea; (v.) to campaign, work vigorously

Answer 5

Crusade

Question 6

(v.) to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value, influence, or effect of; to face down, outshine

Answer 6

Deface

Question 7

(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

Answer 7

Embargo

Question 8

n.) a false notion or belif; an error in thinking

Answer 8

Fallacy

Question 9

(n.) a lack of serioudness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treted with respect; boyancy, lightness in weight

Answer 9

Levity

Question 10

beggar; (adj.) depending on begging for a living

Answer 10

Mendicant

Question 11

(v.) to amke sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust

Answer 11

Nauseate

Question 12

(v.) to nullify, bring to nothing

Answer 12

Negate

Question 13

vitally important, essential

Answer 13

Pivotal

Question 14

(n.) one who recieves; (adj.) receiving; able or willing to receive

Answer 14

Recipient

Question 15

an aciton designed to confuse or mislead, a trick

Answer 15

Ruse

Question 16

to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities

Answer 16

Teem

Question 17

(n.) an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true

Answer 17

Tenet

Question 18

easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable

Answer 18

Tractable

Question 19

Clumsy, awkward; unwieldy

Answer 19

Ungainly

Question 20

having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager

Answer 20

Voracious

Question 21

doctrine, precept

Answer 21

Tenet

Question 22

invalidate, annul

aver, corroborate, buttress

Answer 22

Negate

Question 23

panhandler

millionaire, philanthropist

Answer 23

Mendicant

Question 24

sicken, disgust

delight, tickle pink

Answer 24

Nauseate

Question 25

crucial, critical, decisive, seminal | unimportant, insignificant

Answer 25

Piviotal

Question 26

relinquish, renounce | retain

Answer 26

Abdicate

Question 27

spacious, commodius | cramped, confined, restricted, narrow

Answer 27

Capacious

Question 28

campaign, organized movement

Answer 28

Crusade

Question 29

confer, lodge, put up | receive, take, take back, take away

Answer 29

Bestow

Question 30

mar, disfigure | repair, restore, renovate, recondition

Answer 30

Deface

Question 31

stoppage, boycott

Answer 31

Embargo

Question 32

misconception | sound reasoning, logic

Answer 32

Fallacy

Question 33

giddiness, flippancy, frivolity, fickleness | humorlessness, solemnity

Answer 33

Levity

Question 34

receiver, beneficiary | donor, benefactor, contributor

Answer 34

Recipient

Question 35

gluttonous, insatiable, avid

Answer 35

Voracious

Question 36

graceless | nimble, agile, supple, graceful

Answer 36

Ungainly

Question 37

submissive, docile, yielding, amenable | unruly, obstreperous, refractory

Answer 37

Tractable

Question 38

abound, swarm, overflow | lack, be wanting

Answer 38

Teem

Question 39

stratagem, subterfuge, dodge

Answer 39

Ruse