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Sadlier G: Unit 13
Vocabulary Pracitce
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstruse | extremely difficult to understand |
| affront | an open or intentional insult |
| canard | fabricated story |
| captious | given to petty criticism |
| cognizant | aware, knowledgeable, informed |
| contrite | regretful for some misdeed or sin |
| cynosure | the center of attraction, attention, or interest |
| decorous | well behaved, dignified |
| deign | to think it appropriate to one's dignity to do something |
| desiccated | thoroughly dried out; uninteresting |
| efficacy | the power to produce a desired result |
| engender | to bring into existence |
| ethereal | light, airy, delicate; highly refined |
| facade | the front of a building; surface appearance (as opposed to hat may lie behind) |
| ghoulish | revolting in a morbid way |
| incongruous | unsuitable, incompatible |
| machination | a crafty underhanded action designed to accomplish, evil end |
| mesmerize | to fascinate enthrall |
| opprobrium | disgrace arising from shameful conduct |
| putative | reputed; hypothesized, inferred |