Vocab 4/28/09

auspicious-promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
belie-to show to be false; contradict: His trembling hands belied his calm voice.
bellicose-inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious

bowdlerize-to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
chicanery-trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.

~ by Jansen =) on April 29, 2009.