Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 13
Word List
- abstruse
(adj.) extremely difficult to understand - efficacy
(n.) the power to produce a desired resul - affront
(n.) an open or intentional insult; a slight; (v.) to insult to one’s face; to face in defiance, confront - engender
(v.) to bring into existence, give rise to, produce; to come into existence, assume form - canard
(n.) a false rumor, fabricated story - ethereal
(adj.) light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly (rather than earthbound) - captious
(adj.) excessively ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse, or show up - facade
(n.) the front or face of a building; a surface appearance (as opposed to what may lie behind) - cognizant
(adj.) aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdiction - ghoulish
(adj.) revolting in an unnatural or morbid way; suggestive of someone who robs graves or otherwise preys on the dead - contrite
(adj.) regretful for some misdeed or sin; plagued by a sense of guilt; thoroughly penitent - incongruous
(adj.) not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible - cynosure
(n.) the center of attraction, attention, or interest; something that serves to guide or direct - machination
(n.) a crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end - decorous
(adj.) well behaved, dignified, socially proper - mesmerize
(v.) to hypnotize, entrance; to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch - deign
(v.) to think it appropriate or suitable to one’s dignity to do something; to condescend - opprobrium
(v.) disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach - desiccated
(adj., part.) thoroughly dried out; divested of spirit or vitality; arid and uninteresting - putative
(adj.) generally regarded as such; reputed; hypothesized, inferred