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