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4. boreal – adj. - Of or relating to the north; northern. Of or concerning the northern wind.

6. fez – n. pl. - A man’s felt cap in the shape of a flat-topped cone, usually red with a black tassel hanging from the crown.

8. draconian – adj. - Exceedingly harsh; very severe.

10. litigious – adj. - Of, relating to, or characterized by litigation. Tending to engage in lawsuits.

12. cryptic – adj. - Having hidden meaning; mystifying. Secret or occult.

14. malleable- adj. - Capable of being shaped, as by hammering. Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.

16. pretext – n. - An ostensible or professed purpose; an excuse. An effort or strategy intended to conceal something.

18. auspices – n. pl. - Protection or support; patronage.

20. affectation – n.- A show, pretense, or display. Behavior that is assumed rather than natural; artificiality

22. carnage – n. - Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.

24. postmodern – adj. - Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by using traditional, classical, or extreme modernist styles or practices.

26. oxymoron – n. pl. - A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in deafening silence.

27. Review words at home and someday you may walk on the moon!