| augury |
the art or practice or an instance of predicting the future or obtaining hidden knowledge by interpreting omens. |
| caparison |
decorative trappings to cover a horse's saddle or harness. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| minatory |
presenting a threat; menacing. |
| oligarchy |
a government or state in which only a relatively few people or members of a family have real power. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| prerogative |
an exclusive right or privilege derived from one's office, position, age, citizenship, birth, or the like. |
| pretentious |
assuming or marked by an air of importance or superiority that is unwarranted. |
| pungency |
sharpness or bite in taste or smell. |
| reprobate |
an evil or lawless person, often beyond hope of redemption. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |