Vocabulary Workshop Unit 12 Level C

Question: Abdicate

Answer: (v.) to resign, formally give up an office or a duty; to disown, discard

Question: Bestow

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

Question: Capacious

Answer: (adj.) able to hold much, roomy

Question: Caustic

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

Question: Crusade

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

Question: Deface

Answer: (v.) to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of

Question: Embargo

Answer: (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

Question: Fallacy

Answer: (n.) a false notion or belief; an error in thinking

Question: Levity

Answer: (n.) a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect; buoyancy, lightness in weight

Question: Mendicant

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

Question: Nauseate

Answer: (v.) to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust

Question: Negate

Answer: (v.) to nullify, deny, bring to nothing

Question: Pivotal

Answer: (adj.) vitally important, essential

Question: Recipient

Answer: (n.) one who receives; (adj.) receiving; able or willing to receive

Question: Ruse

Answer: (n.) an action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick

Question: Teem

Answer: (v.) to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities

Question: Tenet

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

Question: Tractable

Answer: (adj.) easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable

Question: Ungainly

Answer: (adj.) clumsy, awkward; unwieldy

Question: Voracious

Answer: (adj.) having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager