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Auspicious

showing or suggesting that future success is likely



attended by good fortune

Chicanery

actions or statements that trick people into believing something that is not true:deception or trickery

Circumlocution

the use of many words to say something that could be said more clearly and directly by using fewer words

Epiphany

a Christian festival held on January 6 in honor of the coming of the three kings to the infant Jesus Christ



a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way

Paradigm

a model or pattern for something that may be copied



a theory or group of ideas about how something should be done,made,or thought

Plagiarize

to use words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas

Lexicon

the words used in a language or by a person or group of people

Loquacious

very talkative



talking smoothly and easily

Omnipotent

having complete or unlimited power

Precipitous

of the nature of or characterized by precipices



extremely or impassably steep

Qoutidian

ordinary or very common



done each day

Recapitulate

to give a brief summary of something

Soliloquy

a long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts

Usurp

to take and keep (something, such as power) in a forceful or violent way and especially without the right to do so

Xenophobe

one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin

Churlish

not polite

Abjure

to reject(something) formally

Belie

to give a false idea of (something)

Kinetic

of or relating to the movement of physical objects

Laissez-faire

a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights



a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action

Lugubrious

full of sadness or sorrow:very sad especially in an exaggerated or insincere way

Metamorphosis

a major change in the appearance or character of someone or something



biology: a major change in the form or structure of some animals or insects that happens as the animal or insect becomes an adult

Parameter

a rule or limit that controls what something is or how something should be done



math:a: an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (as a family of curves);also: a quantity (as mean or variance) that describes a statistical population



b:an independent variable used to express the coordinates of a variable point and functions of them