Delineating Cause and Effect Flashcards
prognosticate
indicate by signs; make a prediction about; tell in advance
harbinger
an indication of the approach of something or someone; foreshadow or presage
machination
a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
engender
call forth; make children
puppeteer
one who operates puppets or marionettes
incipient
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
deleterious
harmful to living things
salutary
tending to promote physical well-being
atmospherics
effects intended to create a particular atmosphere or mood, especially in music
specter
a mental representation of some haunting experience; a ghostly appearing figure
inexorable
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
epochal
highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era
propitious
presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs or success
presage
a foreboding about what is about to happen; a sign of something about to happen; indicate by signs
augury
an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
Faustian
insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values
dystopian
as bad as can be; characterized by human misery;of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia
chimerical
produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; being or relating to or like a chimera
