Unit 12 Vocab
Unit 12 Vocab words for Mr. Carella's class
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- bestow
- to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings
- recipient
- one who recieving; able or willing to recieve
- capacious
- able to hold much, roomy
- caustic
- able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic
- tenet
- an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true
- ungainly
- clumsy, awkward; un wieldy
- fallacy
- a false notion or belief; an error in thinking
- embargo
- an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hindrance; to forbid to enter or leave port; to forbid trade with
- negate
- to nullify, deny, bring to nothing
- nauseate
- to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust
- teem
- to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities
- pivotal
- vitally important, essential
- deface
- to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value, influence, or effect of; to face down, outshine
- abdicate
- to resign, formally give up uan office or a duty; to disown, discard
- tractable
- easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable
- ruse
- an action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick
- crusade
- a strong movement to advance a cause or idea; to campaign, work vigorously
- levity
- a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect; buoyancy, lightness in weight
- mendicant
- beggar; deoending on begging for life
- voracious
- having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager