SAT vocabulary
Abdication
the act of resigning, relinquishing, or formally giving up a throne, office, or high duty
Example
"The monarch's unexpected abdication precipitated a constitutional crisis that reshaped the government."
Etymology
From Latin abdicare, from ab- meaning 'away' and dicare meaning 'to proclaim'
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