Vocabulary Unit 12

Question 0

What means to present as a gift; give; confer?

Answer 0

Bestow

Question 1

What means to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner?

Answer 1

Abdicate

Question 2

What means capable of holding much; spacious or roomy?

Answer 2

Capacious

Question 3

What means capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue?

Answer 3

Caustic

Question 4

What means any vigorous, aggressive movement for the defense or advancement of an idea, cause?

Answer 4

Crusade

Question 5

What means to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure?

Answer 5

Deface

Question 6

What means an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports?

Answer 6

Embargo

Question 7

What means a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief?

Answer 7

Fallacy

Question 8

What means lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness?

Answer 8

Levity

Question 9

What means begging; practicing begging; living on alms?

Answer 9

Mendicant

Question 10

What means to cause to feel extreme disgust?

Answer 10

Nauseate

Question 11

What means to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of?

Answer 11

Negate

Question 12

What means of vital or critical importance?

Answer 12

Pivotal

Question 13

What means a person or thing that receives; receiver?

Answer 13

Recipient

Question 14

What means a trick or scheme?

Answer 14

Ruse

Question 15

What means to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile?

Answer 15

Teem

Question 16

What means any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement?

Answer 16

Tenet

Question 17

What means easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding?

Answer 17

Tractable

Question 18

What means not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy?

Answer 18

Ungainly

Question 19

What means craving or consuming large quantities of food?

Answer 19

Voracious