revoke

to call back or cancel

Roots

  • re-: back, again, or backward motion
  • voc / vok: call or voice

Other words with the voc / vok root

  • advocate: to support or argue for
  • equivocal: ambiguous or deliberately unclear
  • equivocate: to speak ambiguously or avoid commitment
  • evoke: to call forth or bring to mind
  • provocative: reaction-calling or deliberately stirring
  • vocabulary: the words known or used by someone
  • vocal: relating to the voice

Revoke is call-back as cancellation: the permission gets pulled back.

The board revoked the license after the evidence became impossible to ignore.

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