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Revoke vs Perspicuous - What's the difference?

revoke | perspicuous |

As a verb revoke

is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

As a noun revoke

is the act of revoking in a game of cards.

As an adjective perspicuous is

clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.

revoke

English

Verb

  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
  • Your driver's license will be revoked .
  • To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  • (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
  • * Spenser
  • The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
  • (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • * Spenser
  • [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
  • (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • * South
  • A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of revoking in a game of cards.
  • A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
  • A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
  • perspicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  • * 1776 , , Book I, Chapter 4,
  • I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;
  • (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  • (rare) Transparent; translucent.
  • Antonyms

    * imperspicuous

    Derived terms

    * perspicuously * perspicuousness

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