Vocab 12

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

• abdicate

• bestow

• capacious

• voracious

to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings

• bestow

• appease

• capacious

• caustic

able to hold much, roomy

• capacious

• bestow

• caustic

• crusade

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

• caustic

• capacious

• crusade

• deface

(n) a strong movement to advance a cause or idea

(v) to campaign, work vigorously

• crusade

• caustic

• deface

• embargo

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

• deface

• crusade

• embargo

• fallacy

(n) an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hinderance

(v) to forbid to enter or leave port; to forbid trade with

• embargo

• deface

• fallacy

• levity

a false notion or belief; an error thinking

• fallacy

• embargo

• levity

• mendicant

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

• levity

• fallacy

• mendicant

• nauseate

(n) beggar

(adj) depending on begging for a living

• levity

• mendicant

• nauseate

• negate