SAT vocabulary
Abdicate
To voluntarily renounce, surrender, or give up a position of power, right, or responsibility
Example
"Faced with mounting political scandal and civil unrest, the monarch chose to abdicate the throne in favor of his daughter."
Etymology
From Latin abdicare, from ab- ('away, from') + dicare ('to proclaim, declare').
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