| auspicious |
likely to be followed by favorable events. |
| bane |
something or someone that causes ruin or great trouble. |
| candor |
the quality of openness, honesty, and straightforwardness in expression. |
| constrain |
to keep within tight restrictions; confine. |
| incorporeal |
without material being; bodiless; insubstantial. |
| inimical |
having or tending to have a bad effect; harmful or adverse. |
| obsequious |
showing or tending to show servile obedience or deference; fawning. |
| pestilence |
an epidemic, usually deadly, disease; plague. |
| precedent |
an action that may serve as an example for future acts of the same nature. |
| pronouncement |
a formal or official declaration. |
| remit |
to refrain from carrying out; cancel. |
| reprehensible |
deserving of blame or reproof; condemnable; blameworthy. |
| stasis |
the state of equilibrium or balance between opposing forces; motionlessness. |
| tangent |
a line of discussion leading away from the original topic; digression. |
| volition |
the act of willing, deciding, or choosing. |