beatific ( adj )
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Beatific ( adj ). Blissful; rendering or making blessed ***beautiful things/events make one feel bliss. Behemoth (n). A creature of enormous size, power, or appearance ***a behemoth is mammoth. Blandishment (n, often pl). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Beatific (adj)Blissful; rendering or making blessed
***beautiful things/events make one feel bliss
Behemoth (n)A creature of enormous size, power, or appearance
***a behemoth is mammoth
Blandishment (n, often pl)Anything designed to flatter or coax; sweet talk, apple-polishing
***complement
Cacophonous (adj)Harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant
***cackle on the phone
Chicanery (n) Trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing
***trickery
Consign (v)To give over to another’s care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use
***sign something to turn over control
Coup (n)A highly successful stroke, master stroke, tour de force, act, plan or stratagem; a sudden takeover of power or leadership
***the coup went through the city by storm
Euphemism (n)a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute
***use less offensive language
Febrile (adj)Feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic
***fever
Gainsay (v)To deny, contradict, controvert; to dispute, oppose
***against what you say
We deny any wrongdoing in this case!
Imminent (adj)
About to happen, threatening
***immediate
Innate (adj)Natural, inborn, inherent; built-in
***inborn
Loath (adj)Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined
***loath to do things one loathes
Manifest (adj)(v)(n)Clear, evident to the eyes or mind; (v) to show plainly, exhibit, evince; (n)a list of cargo and/or passengers
***manifest destiny
Minutiae (pl. n)Small or trivial details, trifling matters
***minute
Moratorium (n)A suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay
***there was a moratorium on the payment for the new auditorium
Nostrum (n)An alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness
***putting rum in your nose to cure a cold would be a nostrum
Pariah (n)One who is rejected by a social group or organization
***stay away from a piranha
Visionary (adj)Not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream; (n) one given to far-fetched ideas; a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight
***vision/dream
Wizened (adj., part.)Dry, shrunken, and wrinkled (often as the result of aging)
***wise old person may have wrinkles