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Number 13
Unit 13 Vocabulary
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English
11th Grade
05/14/2009

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Abstruse
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adj; extremely hard to understand
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Affront
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v; to confront or insult to one's face

n; a confrontion or insult

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Canard
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n; a false rumor or fabricated story
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Captious
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adj; ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intended to show someone up
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Cognizant
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adj; aware, informed, knowledgeable
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Contrite
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adj; regretful for some misdeed or sin; plagued by a sense of guilt
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Cynosure
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n; center of attraction, attention or interest
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Decorous
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adj; well behaved; socially proper
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Deign
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v; to condescend
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Desiccated
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adj; devested of spirit; dried out, uninteresting
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Efficacy
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n; the power to produce a desired result
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Engender
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V; to bring into existence; to give rise to
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Ethereal
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adj; light, airy and delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly rather than earth bound
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Facade
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n; the front of a building; surface appearance
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Ghoulish
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adj; revolting in an unnatrual and morbid way
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Incongruous
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adj; unsuitable; incompatible
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Machination
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n; a crafty scheming designed to accomplish an evil end
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Mesmerize
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v; to hypnotize; to fascinate
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Opprobrium
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n;disgrace arising from shameful conduct; infamy
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Preempt
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v; to seize upon to the exclusion of others; to take over
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Putative
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adj; reputed, inferred, hypothesized
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Simplistic
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adj; simple-minded, highly oversimplified
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