I believe you mean <em>abdication</em>.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, <em>abdication</em> is an act of giving up sovereign power or high office.
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Prefix is the <em>beginning word / place in front before </em>

- <em><u>Which means: </u></em>

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The answers are:
11. To honor the restauran's foreign guests, The head chef changed the menu.
2. The living room was decorated in shades of lavender an teal by my mother.
<em>Explanation</em>
To change a sentence in English from the active voice to the passive voice:
1. Look at the sentence carefully and determine the subject of the sentence.
2. Determine the object of the sentence.
3. Put the object in the front of the sentence and place the subject towards the end of the sentence.
In this setence: "Your guesses are better than most people's facts." the word "are" is A) simple predicate.
A simple predicate is the main vern of the sentence, the rest of the words together with the main verb is called compund predicate, but this is not the case since the main verb "are" is separated from the rest when asking about its description on the sentence.
here we have another example of a simple predicate:
I like eating pizza and Nachos.