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revocation

Meaning

The act of annulling or taking back a decree, grant, or promise.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

The king's sudden anger led to the immediate revocation of the farmer's land grant. All the promises he had made were taken back, leaving the man with nothing. This felt like a cruel joke after all his hard work.

The council debated the inventor's grant. His last invention had caused a terrible mess, so a swift revocation seemed likely. They had given him the funding with a promise, but now that promise was up for cancellation.

The elder stared at the parchment, his hand shaking. Yesterday, the council had granted him use of the spring. Today, this. The ink, stark black, declared its revocation, their promise to share the water now a broken thing, leaving his dry fields to bake.

My grandpa's promise of a pony was swiftly followed by its revocation. Turns out, he thought a pony was a type of potato. So, instead of a neighing friend, I got a bag of spuds and a funny story about his mistaken generosity.

My pet rock, Bartholomew, famously declared his love for gravel with a solemn decree. Unfortunately, after a dramatic incident involving a runaway leaf blower, Bartholomew's decree suffered a swift revocation. He now only tolerates dandelion fluff.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

The king's hasty promise of a new tax exemption was met with immediate celebration. But his advisors, fearing economic ruin, urged him to reconsider. The subsequent announcement of the revocation of the decree brought a wave of anger and disappointment crashing down.

After weeks of careful construction, the permit’s revocation hit them like a physical blow. All that hopeful planning, the borrowed tools, the sweat and aching muscles, now rendered useless. The city’s decision felt like a cruel joke, a promise of progress cruelly snatched away with the stroke of a pen.

The scientist stared at the encrypted data stream, the final confirmation appearing: the revocation of their unauthorized stellar cartography grant. Decades of work, gone. It felt like a physical blow, the promise of exploration snatched away by bureaucratic decree, leaving only the bitter taste of what might have been.

My landlord's threat of lease revocation after I serenaded his prize-winning poodle with opera seemed excessive, especially since I thought it was a *magnificent* performance. Clearly, my grant of musical genius was not appreciated, a rather disappointing turn of events for my budding canine fan club.

Bartholomew the badger's grant of unlimited worm privileges to the squirrel parliament was met with a collective sigh of relief, until the king of the compost heap enacted a swift revocation. Apparently, the squirrels had been using the worms to build tiny, inedible opera houses, a fact Bartholomew found deeply insulting.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

He felt the sting of betrayal as the company announced the revocation of his promised bonus. All that hard work, all those extra hours, and now, the grant was simply taken back. His hopes, once so bright, were extinguished by this sudden, harsh annulment.

The edict's immediate revocation left the guild members reeling. Their promised access to the restricted archives, a grant they had celebrated just hours ago, was now gone. This abrupt taking back felt like a betrayal, their hopes dashed by an official decree's sudden annulment.

The whispered news of the Guild's revocation of his foraging permit left Elias numb. Years cultivating the bioluminescent moss, now gone. His carefully crafted promise to supply the rare pigment was annulled, leaving him adrift with nothing but the damp chill of his workshop.

Sir Reginald's notorious penchant for granting ludicrous titles—like "Baron of Biscuit Crumbs"—led to swift revocation by the exasperated monarch. The official decree’s annulment meant no more imaginary duchies, much to the chagrin of Reginald, who was already practicing his noble wave.

Bartholomew, renowned for his spectacularly ill-advised promise to knit the King a pontoon bridge, faced the swift revocation of his royal assent. His grand pronouncements, usually involving elaborate cheese sculptures, were now subject to official annulment after the incident with the spontaneously combusting Gouda.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The stark announcement detailed the immediate revocation of his academic scholarship. Years of diligent work and nascent aspirations dissolved with the formal decree, a gutting blow signifying the abrupt termination of his future at the prestigious institution.

The grand pronouncement of the High Arbiter, intended to redistribute the coveted etherium deposits, faced immediate opposition. A formidable coalition of guild masters presented irrefutable evidence of historical territorial claims. Consequently, the expected decree's efficacy dissolved into its revocation, a complete annulment that left the ambitious plan in dust.

The guild's final decree regarding the contested chrono-artifact was a brutal revocation. All previous permissions for its temporal displacement were nullified. This sudden withdrawal of authority left the researchers in a state of considerable consternation, their ambitious project abruptly curtailed.

Lord Bartholomew’s revocation of his promise to fund the annual pickled onion eating contest was met with considerable consternation. Apparently, his recent vision of a world without fermented alliums had been quite apocalyptic, leading to this egregious annulment of his fiscal commitment.

The king's decree, a flamboyant proclamation promising unlimited flugelhorn concerts, met its swift revocation after his pet badger, Bartholomew, developed an acute aversion to brass. Apparently, the cacophony triggered Bartholomew's latent operatic tendencies, leading to a nightly serenade of existential angst that shattered every gargoyle's sleep.

Difficulty

Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.

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