Cases of word usage

1) to give up a throne, a high office, control or responsibility (abdicate)

2) to choose (a person, group) for a job, responsibility (appoint)

3) responsibility for failure, bad behaviour etc (blame)

4) a person given a responsibility (especially a representative sent to a meeting) (delegate)

5) a bishop's district of responsibility (diocese)

6) to set (a person, oneself) free (from being held, from an unwanted responsibility etc) (extricate)

7) to consider that an act, quality or result is a person's responsibility or fault (impute)

8) (especially) (doing things, done) without a proper sense of responsibility (irresponsible)

9) responsibility for doing something (onus)

10) an activity or responsibility of a particular person or group; jam (the usual word) (preserve)