| affluent |
having a lot of money; rich; wealthy. |
| avid |
having or showing great enthusiasm. |
| bedizen |
to dress or decorate in a flashy, garish fashion. |
| connive |
to join secretly in a plot; conspire. |
| embellish |
to improve by, or as though by, decorations; decorate. |
| immutable |
not subject to change; unchanging or unchangeable. |
| matriarch |
a woman who acts as head of a family, tribe, or other group of people. |
| obscene |
offensive and not decent. |
| Philistine |
(sometimes lower case) one who is ignorant of, smugly indifferent to, or hostile to aesthetic and cultural values. |
| premonition |
an advance sign or warning; forewarning. |
| promontory |
a high cliff that sticks out into a large body of water or that rises above an area of lower land. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| tenuous |
having little substance, support, or significance; flimsy; weak. |
| transcendent |
going beyond the ordinary; surpassing; extraordinary. |
| vacuous |
characterized by lack of intelligence or serious intent; devoid of ideas or emotion. |