Vocabulary Workshop C Unit 12

A basic ____ of Christianity is Jesus is the Son of God.

• crusade

• recipient

• fallacy

• tenet

The interception was a ____ play of the game.

• ungainly

• caustic

• voracious

• pivotal

I was the ___ of Laura's amazing generosity.

• embargo

• recipient

• levity

• mendicant

The ____ colt wobbled on its unsteady legs.

• pivotal

• ungainly

• capacious

• tractable

The smell of liver cooking ____ me every time I smell it.

• defaces

• teems

• nauseates

• bestows

The gifts were _____ on James on his birthday.

• bestowed

• negated

• teemed

• abdicated

A little _____ helped break the tension in the room.

• mendicant

• embargo

• ruse

• levity

Carla's ____ appetite for books could not be filled.

• voracious

• caustic

• tractable

• capacious

The king will ____ his throne and live a more simple life.

• bestow

• abdicate

• negate

• teem

We are on a _____ to change some of our bad habits this year.

• fallacy

• crusade

• levity

• ruse