Vocabulary - Unit 12 Flashcards
To resign, formally give up an office or a duty, to disown, discard
Abdicate
(v.) to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings
Bestow
able to hold much, roomy
Capacious
(adj.) able to burn or eat away by chemcical action; biting, sarcastic
Caustic
(n.) a strong movement to advance a casue or idea; (v.) to campaign, work vigorously
Crusade
(v.) to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value, influence, or effect of; to face down, outshine
Deface
(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
Embargo
n.) a false notion or belif; an error in thinking
Fallacy
(n.) a lack of serioudness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treted with respect; boyancy, lightness in weight
Levity
beggar; (adj.) depending on begging for a living
Mendicant
(v.) to amke sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust
Nauseate
(v.) to nullify, bring to nothing
Negate
vitally important, essential
Pivotal
(n.) one who recieves; (adj.) receiving; able or willing to receive
Recipient
an aciton designed to confuse or mislead, a trick
Ruse
to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities
Teem
(n.) an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true
Tenet
easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable
Tractable
Clumsy, awkward; unwieldy
Ungainly
having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager
Voracious
doctrine, precept
Tenet
invalidate, annul
aver, corroborate, buttress
Negate
panhandler
millionaire, philanthropist
Mendicant
sicken, disgust
delight, tickle pink
Nauseate
crucial, critical, decisive, seminal
unimportant, insignificant
Piviotal
relinquish, renounce
retain
Abdicate
spacious, commodius
cramped, confined, restricted, narrow
Capacious
campaign, organized movement
Crusade
confer, lodge, put up
receive, take, take back, take away
Bestow
mar, disfigure
repair, restore, renovate, recondition
Deface
stoppage, boycott
Embargo
misconception
sound reasoning, logic
Fallacy
giddiness, flippancy, frivolity, fickleness
humorlessness, solemnity
Levity
receiver, beneficiary
donor, benefactor, contributor
Recipient
gluttonous, insatiable, avid
Voracious
graceless
nimble, agile, supple, graceful
Ungainly
submissive, docile, yielding, amenable
unruly, obstreperous, refractory
Tractable
abound, swarm, overflow
lack, be wanting
Teem
stratagem, subterfuge, dodge
Ruse