- abstruse: hard to understand
- affront: an intentional insult
- canard: a false rumor
- captious: intended to trap
- cognizant: aware
- contrite: plaqued by a sence of guilt
- cynosure: the center of atraction
- decorous: well behaved
- deign: deem. stoop
- desiccated: dried out
- efficacy: power to produce a disired result
- engender: to bring into existance
- ethereal: light, ariy, delicate
- facade: the front of face of a building
- ghoulish: revolting in unatural way
- incongruous: unsustanable
- machination: a scheming action to acomplish evil
- mesmirize: to hipnotize
- opprobrium: discrace from shameful conduct
- putative: generally regarded as such(supposed)