Vocabulary Workshop level C, unit 12

a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect

• levity
• mendicant
• fallacy
• embargo

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

to resign, formally give up an office or duty

• bestow
• deface
• abdicate
• negate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value etc.

• negate
• deface
• crusade
• nauseate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

one who receives

• mendicant
• recipient
• tenet
• ruse

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4C

To become filled to overflowing

• teem
• negate
• abdicate
• bestow

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

beggar

• tenet
• ruse
• mendicant
• embargo

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

vitally important, essential

• capacious
• caustic
• pivotal
• tractable

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous

• ungainly
• voracious
• tractable
• caustic

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

biting, sarcastic

• tractable
• capacious
• voracious
• caustic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust

• negate
• abdicate
• nauseate
• deface

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E