Vocabulary from Unit 13.
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| 6584976591 | abstruse | (adj.) extremely difficult to understand | 0 | |
| 6584976592 | affront | (n.) an open or intentional insult; a slight; (v.) to insult to one's face; to face in defiance , confront | 1 | |
| 6584976593 | canard | (n.) a false rumor, fabricated story | 2 | |
| 6584976594 | captious | (adj.) excessively ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse, or show up | 3 | |
| 6584976595 | cognizant | (adj.) aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdiction | 4 | |
| 6584976596 | contrite | (adj.) regretful for some misdeed or sin; plagued by a sense of guilt; thoroughly penitent | 5 | |
| 6584976597 | cynosure | (n.) the center of attraction, attention, or interest; something that serves to guide or direct | 6 | |
| 6584976598 | decorous | (adj.) well behaved, dignified, socially proper | 7 | |
| 6584976599 | deign | (v.) to think it appropriate or suitable to one's dignity to do something; to condescend | 8 | |
| 6584976600 | desiccated | (adj., part.) thoroughly dried out; divested of spirit or vitality; arid and uninteresting | 9 | |
| 6584976601 | efficacy | (n.) the power to produce a desired result | 10 | |
| 6584976602 | engender | (v.) to bring into existence, give rise to, produce; to come into existence, assume form | 11 | |
| 6584976603 | ethereal | (adj.) light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly (rather than earthbound) | 12 | |
| 6584976604 | facade | (n.) the front or face of a building; a surface appearance (as opposed to what may lie behind) | 13 | |
| 6584976605 | ghoulish | (adj.) revolting in an unnatural or morbid way; suggestive of someone who robs graves or otherwise preys on the dead | 14 | |
| 6584976606 | incongruous | (adj.) not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible | 15 | |
| 6584976607 | machination | (n.) a crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end | 16 | |
| 6584976608 | mesmerize | (v.) to hypnotize, entrance; to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch | 17 | |
| 6584976609 | opprobrium | (n.) disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach | 18 | |
| 6584976610 | putative | (adj.) generally regarded as such; reputed; hypothesized, inferred | 19 |
