Chapter 12

Question 1

to give as a gift to provide with lodgings

Answer 1

bestow

Question 2

able to hold much roomy

Answer 2

capacious

Question 3

able to burn or east away by chemical action biting sarcastic

Answer 3

caustic

Question 4

a strong movement to advance a cause or idea to campaign work vigorously

Answer 4

crusade

Question 5

to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of to damage the value influence or effect of to face down outshine

Answer 5

deface

Question 6

an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods any restraint or hindrance to forbid to enter or leave port to forbid to enter or leave port to forbid trade with

Answer 6

embargo

Question 7

a false notion or belief an error in thinking

Answer 7

fallacy

Question 8

a lack of seriousness or earnestness especially about things that should be treated with respect buoyancy lightness in weight

Answer 8

levity

Question 9

beggar depending on begging for a living

Answer 9

mendicant

Question 10

to make sick to the stomach to fill with disgust

Answer 10

nauseate

Question 11

to nullify deny bring to nothing

Answer 11

negate

Question 12

vitally important essential

Answer 12

pivotal

Question 13

one who receives receiving able or willing to receive

Answer 13

recipient

Question 14

an action designed to confuse or mislead a trick

Answer 14

ruse

Question 15

to become filled to overflowing to be present in large quantities

Answer 15

teem

Question 16

an opinion belief or principle held to be true

Answer 16

tenet

Question 17

easily managed easy to deal with easily wrought

Answer 17

tractable

Question 18

clumsy awkward unwieldy

Answer 18

ungainly

Question 19

having a huge appetite greedy ravenous excessively eager

Answer 19

voracious

Question 20

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

Answer 20

abdicate