| beneficent |
tending to do good; kindly; charitable. |
| charismatic |
having unusually strong personal allure or appeal. |
| contrive |
to plan in a clever way; invent. |
| drivel |
foolish or silly speech or ideas. |
| echelon |
a level of authority or rank, as in an organization. |
| incongruous |
not suitable or fitting; out of place. |
| junta |
a small group, often of military officers, acting as the rulers of a nation, especially provisionally after the overthrow of a previous government. |
| patriarch |
a man who is the leader of a family or tribe. |
| portend |
to serve as a sign or warning of; bode. |
| rudimentary |
of or pertaining to the basic or first principles; elementary. |
| ruse |
a trick, pretense, or diversion intended to deceive or mislead. |
| sate |
to fill to excess, especially with food; glut. |
| sentient |
having the capacity to receive sensations; able to perceive. |
| taciturn |
habitually silent and uncommunicative. |
| undercut |
to act so as to lessen the effectiveness or influence of; undermine or thwart. |