Abstruse

(adj)

extremely difficult to understand

Affront

(n)

An open or intentional insult; a slight; offense

(v)

to insult to one's face; to face in defiance, confront; offend

Canard

(n)

A false rumor, fabricated story; hoax

Captious

(adj)

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

Cognizant

(adj)

Aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdicition; conscious

Contrite

(adj)

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

Cynosure

(n)

The center of attraction, attention, or interest; something that serves to guide or direct; focus

 Decorous

(adj)

Well behaved, dignified, socially proper; tasteful

Deign

(v)

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

Desiccated

(adj)

Thouroughly dried out; divested of spirit or vitality; arid and uninteresting; dehydrated

Efficacy

(n)

the power to produce a desired result; effectiveness

Engender

 (v)

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

 Ethereal

(adj)

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

Facade

(n)

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

Ghoulish

(adj)

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

Machination

(n)

A crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usualy evil) end; scheme

Mesmerize

(v)

To hypnotize, entrance; to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch

Opprobrium

(n)

Disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach; shame

Putative

(adj)

Generally regarded as suh; reputed; hypothesized, inferred; supposed

 Beatific

(adj)

Blissful; rendering or making blessed; ecstatic

Behemoth

(n)

A creature of enormous size, power, or appearance; whale

 Blandishment

(n)

Anything designed to flatter or coax; sweet talk, apple-polishing

Cacophonous

(adj)

Harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant

Chicanery

 (n)

Trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing

 Consign

(v)

To give over to another's care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use; transfer

Coup

(n)

A higly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour de force, act, plan, or stratagem; a sudden takeover of power or leadership

Euphemism

(n)

A mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute

Febrile

(adj)

Feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic

Gainsay

(v)

To deny, contradict, controvert; to dispute, oppose

Imminent

(adj)

About to happen, threatening

Innate

(adj)

Natural, inborn, inherent; built-in

Loath

(adj)

Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined

 Manifest

 (adj)

Clear, evident to the eyes or mind; apparent

(v)

To show plainly, exhibit, evince; reveal

(n)

A list of cargo and/ or passengers

Minutiae

(n)

Small or trivial details, trifling matters; trivia

Moratorium

 (n)

A suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay; postponement

Nostrum

(n)

An alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness

Pariah

(n)

One who is rejected by a social group or organization; outcast

 Visionary

 (adj)

Not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream;

(n)

One given to far-fetchd ideas; a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight

Wizened

(adj)

Dry, shrunken, and wrinkled (often as the result of againg); shriveled