Vocabulary 13 seniors with a twist

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• Cognizant

• Efficacy

• Abstruse

• Opprobrium

(n) A personally offensive act or word, a deliberate act or display of disrespect; (v) To offend openly by disrespect or insolence

• Affront

• Captious

• Putative

• Incongruous

A false or made up story or rumor

• Ghoulish

• Desiccated

• Cynosure

• Canard

Always ready to find fault or criticize

• Abstruse

• Captious

• Ethereal

• Mesmerize

Taking notice or being aware

• Deign

• Facade

• Machination

• Cognizant

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• Decorous

• Feeling or showing guilt or regret for sins or wrongs

• Diegn

• Dehydrated or completely dried out.

• Contrite

• Appropriate manners, characteristics or behaviors for a situation.

• Cynosure

• To think appropriate or worthy of one's dignity

• Desiccated

• The center of attraction or interest

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• Ethereal

• Light or airy or heavenly

• Engender

• An artificial or deceptive front of a building or an appearance

• Facade

• To produce or bring into existence

• Efficacy

• The power to produce the desired effect or result.

• Ghoulish

• Showing fascination with death and decay or morbid

Match the following

• Putative

• A crafty scheme or plot to bring about a sinister or evil end

• Mesmerize

• Disgrace or reproach caused by shameful behavior

• Opprobrium

• To hypnotize or fascinate

• Incongruous

• Commonly regarded as such or accepted as true

• Machination

• Not harmonious or compatible in nature