Vocabulary in Action Level C Unit 12

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

• levity
• mendicant
• fallacy
• embargo

to resign, formally give up an office or duty

• bestow
• deface
• abdicate
• negate

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

• negate
• deface
• crusade
• nauseate

one who receives

• mendicant
• recipient
• tenet
• ruse

To become filled to overflowing

• teem
• negate
• abdicate
• bestow

beggar

• tenet
• ruse
• mendicant
• embargo

vitally important, essential

• capacious
• caustic
• pivotal
• tractable

having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous

• ungainly
• voracious
• tractable
• caustic

biting, sarcastic

• tractable
• capacious
• voracious
• caustic

to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust

• negate
• abdicate
• nauseate
• deface