Unit 13

Question 1

Abstruse

Answer 1

• Extremely difficult to understand

- Arcane

Question 2

Affront

Answer 2

• An obvious or intentional insult, an offense

- To insult openly;to face in defiance, confront

Question 3

Canard

Answer 3

-A false rumor, fabricated story

Question 4

Captious

Answer 4

-Excessively ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse, or show up

Question 5

Cognizant

Answer 5

-Aware, knowledgable, informed; having jurisdiction

Question 6

Contrite

Answer 6

-Regretful for some misdeed or sin; plagued by a sense of guilt; thoroughly penitent

Question 7

Cynosure

Answer 7

• The center of attraction, attention, or interest

- Something that serves to guide or direct

Question 8

Decorous

Answer 8

-Well behaved, dignified, socially proper

Question 9

Deign

Answer 9

-To think it appropriate or suitable to one’s dignity to do something; to condescend

Question 10

Desiccated

Answer 10

-Thoroughly dried out; divested of spirit or vitality; arid and uninterested

Question 11

Efficacy

Answer 11

-The power to produce a desired result

Question 12

Engender

Answer 12

-To bring into existence, give rise to, produce; to come into existence, assume form

Question 13

Ethereal

Answer 13

-Light, airy, delicate;highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly (rather than earthbound)

Question 14

Facade

Answer 14

-The front or face of a building; a surface appearance (as opposed to what may lie behind)

Question 15

Ghoulish

Answer 15

-Revolting in an unnatural or morbid way; suggestive of someone who rods graves or otherwise preys on the dead

Question 16

Incongruous

Answer 16

-Not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible

Question 17

Machination

Answer 17

-A crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end

Question 18

Mesmerize

Answer 18

-To hypnotize , entrance; to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch

Question 19

Opprobrium

Answer 19

-Disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach

Question 20

Putative

Answer 20

-Generally regarded as such, reputed; hypothesized, inferred