Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 12

to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value, influence, or effect of; to face down, outshine

• deface

• pivotal

• fallacy

• capacious

an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true

• crusade

• tenet

• pivotal

• abdicate

one who receives; receiving; able or willing to receive

• fallacy

• deface

• recipient

• tenet

a strong movement to advance a cause or idea; to campaign, work vigorously

• crusade

• recipient

• deface

• ungainly

a false notion or belief; an error in thinking

• tenet

• capacious

• pivotal

• fallacy

clumsy, awkward; unwieldy

• tenet

• crusade

• capacious

• ungainly

an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hindrance; to forbid to enter or leave port; to forbid trade with

• embargo

• levity

• ungainly

• ruse

able to hold much, roomy

• capacious

• crusade

• deface

• negate

a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect; buoyancy, lightness in weight

• levity

• fallacy

• voracious

• caustic

vitally important, essential

• deface

• ungainly

• pivotal

• recipient