| auspicious |
likely to be followed by favorable events. |
| aver |
to assert to be true; affirm. |
| comely |
pleasing in appearance. |
| culminate |
to arrive at a climax or conclusion (usually followed by "in"). |
| culpable |
guilty of a mistake or fault; blameworthy. |
| defile1 |
to make unclean, foul, or filthy. |
| fraught |
accompanied by; full of, usually something bad or unpleasant. |
| implicate |
to involve or prove involvement of (someone or something) in an affair, situation, event, or series of events. |
| influx |
the act or an instance of flowing in. |
| innumerable |
very many. |
| parochial |
narrow or limited in scope or viewpoint; provincial. |
| satiate |
to glut or fill to excess; oversupply; surfeit. |
| stringent |
rigorous or exacting; strict. |
| surveillance |
a close watch or observation, especially of a person or group of people under suspicion. |
| unconscionable |
not restrained or guided by a concern for what is right and just; unprincipled. |