Beatific (adj)Blissful; rendering or making blessed

***beautiful things/events make one feel bliss

Behemoth (n)A creature of enormous size, power, or appearance

***a behemoth is mammoth

Blandishment (n, often pl)Anything designed to flatter or coax; sweet talk, apple-polishing

***complement

Cacophonous (adj)Harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant

***cackle on the phone

Chicanery (n) Trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing

***trickery

Consign (v)To give over to another’s care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use

***sign something to turn over control

Coup (n)A highly successful stroke, master stroke, tour de force, act, plan or stratagem; a sudden takeover of power or leadership

***the coup went through the city by storm

Euphemism (n)a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute

***use less offensive language

Febrile (adj)Feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic

***fever

Gainsay (v)To deny, contradict, controvert; to dispute, oppose

***against what you say

We deny any wrongdoing in this case!

Imminent (adj)

About to happen, threatening

***immediate

Innate (adj)Natural, inborn, inherent; built-in

***inborn

Loath (adj)Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined

***loath to do things one loathes

Manifest (adj)(v)(n)Clear, evident to the eyes or mind; (v) to show plainly, exhibit, evince; (n)a list of cargo and/or passengers

***manifest destiny

Minutiae (pl. n)Small or trivial details, trifling matters

***minute

Moratorium (n)A suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay

***there was a moratorium on the payment for the new auditorium

Nostrum (n)An alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness

***putting rum in your nose to cure a cold would be a nostrum

Pariah (n)One who is rejected by a social group or organization

***stay away from a piranha

Visionary (adj)Not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream; (n) one given to far-fetched ideas; a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight

***vision/dream

Wizened (adj., part.)Dry, shrunken, and wrinkled (often as the result of aging)

***wise old person may have wrinkles