Unit 13_Orange Book - Sadlier Oxford Level G

John S. (United States of America)
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  1. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  2. affront
    a deliberately offensive act
  3. canard
    a deliberately misleading fabrication
  4. captious
    tending to find and call attention to faults
  5. cognizant
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
  6. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  7. cynosure
    something that provides guidance
  8. decorous
    characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste
  9. deign
    do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
  10. desiccated
    thoroughly dried out
  11. efficacy
    capacity or power to produce a desired result
  12. engender
    call forth
  13. ethereal
    characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
  14. facade
    the front of a building
  15. ghoulish
    suggesting the horror of death and decay
  16. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  17. machination
    a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
  18. mesmerize
    attract strongly, as if with a magnet
  19. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  20. preempt
    acquire for oneself before others can do so
  21. putative
    purported
  22. simplistic
    characterized by extreme and misleading lack of complexity
Created on Wed Feb 27 13:48:52 EST 2013 (updated Wed Feb 27 13:51:49 EST 2013)

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