Vocabulary Unit 12

abdicate (v) syn: relinquish, renounce Ant: retain

• to resign, formally give up an office or a duty; to disown or discard

• to abolish or remove, radicate

• give as a gift; provide with lodgings

• a false notion or belief; an error in thinking

to give a gift; provide with lodgings syn: confer, lodge, put up ant: receive, take back, take away

• deface (v)

• bestow (v)

• levity (n)

• pivitol (adj0

capacious (adj) syn: spacious, commodious ant: cramped, confined, restricted, narrow

• to lodge up, put up

• able to hold much, roomy

• having a huge appetitie, freedy, ravenous

• one who recives

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

• capacious

• deface

• levity

• caustic

(n) strong movement to advance cause or idea (v) campaign, work vigorously

• abdicate

• crusade

• deface

• negate

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

• deface

• misconception

• pivitol

• disfigure

(n) order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hinderance; (v) forbid to enter or leave port; to forbid trade

• relinquish

• fallancy

• embargo

• stoppage

(n) false notion or belief; error in thinking

• mendicant

• fallacy

• logic

• fickleness

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

• solemnity

• recipient

• voracious

• levity

(n) begger; (adj) depending on begging for life

• panhandler

• mendicant

• mendecant

• homeless