Unit 12

Question 0

Voracious

Answer 0

Craving

Question 1

Bestow

Answer 1

Gift

Question 2

Capacious

Answer 2

Roomy

Question 3

Caustic

Answer 3

Capable of burning

Question 4

Mendicant

Answer 4

Begging

Question 5

Nauseate

Answer 5

Sicken

Question 6

Abdicate

Answer 6

To renounce

Question 7

Ruse

Answer 7

A trick

Question 8

Teem

Answer 8

A swarm

Question 9

Pivotal

Answer 9

Pertaining to

Question 10

Recipient

Answer 10

Thing that receives

Question 11

Tenet

Answer 11

Any opinion

Question 12

Crusade

Answer 12

War

Question 13

Deface

Answer 13

to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.

Question 14

Embargo

Answer 14

an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.

Question 15

Fallacy

Answer 15

a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.

Question 16

Levity

Answer 16

lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.

Question 17

Negate

Answer 17

to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.

Question 18

Tractable

Answer 18

easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.

Question 19

Ungainly

Answer 19

not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.