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Vocab Units 13 14 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstruse | extremely difficult to understand |
| affront | an open or intentional insult |
| canard | a false rumor, fabricated story |
| captious | excessively ready to find fault |
| cognizant | aware, knowledgeable, informed |
| contrite | regretful for some misdeed or sin |
| cynosure | the center of attraction, attention, or interest |
| decorous | well behaved, dignified, socially proper |
| deign | to think it appropriate or suitable to one's dignity to do something |
| desiccated | throughly dried out |
| efficacy | the power to produce a desired result |
| engender | to bring into existence, give rise to, produce |
| ethereal | light, airy, delicate |
| facade | the front or face of a building; a surface appearance |
| ghoulish | revolting in an unnatural or morbid way |
| incongruous | not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible |
| machination | a crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end |
| mesmerize | to hypnotize, entrance |
| opprobrium | disgrace arising from shameful conduct |
| putative | generally regarded as such; reputed; hypothesized, inferred |
| beatific | blissful; rendering or making blessed |
| behemoth | a creature of enormous size, power, or appearance |
| blandishment | anything designed to flatter or coax |
| cacophonous | harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant |
| chicanery | trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing |
| consign | to give over to another's care, charge, or control |
| coup | a highly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour de force act, plan, or stratagem |
| euphemism | a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute |
| febrile | feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever |
| gainsay | to deny, contradict, controvert |
| imminent | about to happen, threatening |
| innate | natural, inborn, inherent; built-in |
| loath | unwilling, reluctant, disinclined |
| manifest | clear evident to the eyes or mind |
| minutiae | small or trivial details, trifling matters |
| moratorium | a suspension of activity |
| nostrum | an alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness |
| pariah | one who is rejected by a social group or organization |
| visionary | not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream |
| wizened | dry, shrunken, and wrinkled (often as the result of aging) |
| amenity | that which is pleasant or agreeable |
| aperture | an opening, gap, hole |
| dissidence | a different of opinion |
| epicurean | (adj.) -Devoted to the pursuit of pleasure -Fond of good food, comfort, and ease -With discriminating tastes (n.) a person with discriminating tastes |
| improvident | not thrifty; failing to plan ahead |
| iniquity | wickedness, sin |
| inviolable | sacred |
| mutable | open to or capable of change, fickle |
| nascent | just beginning to exist or develop |
| obeisance | a deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission |
| panegyric | formal or elaborate praise |
| pillory | a device for publicly punishing offenders |
| pittance | a woefully meager allowance, wage, or portion |
| presage | to foreshadow or point to a future event |
| progeny | descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples |
| promulgate | to proclaim or issue officially |
| recitude | uprightness, righteousness |
| restive | restless, hard to manage, balky |
| seraphic | angelic, heavenly, celestial |
| subsist | to have existence |
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