| A | B |
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| ominous | threatening, inauspicious, menacing |
| portentous | ominous, ill-omened, foreboding |
| inauspicious | unfavorable, unpromising, discouraging, bleak |
| imminent | about to happen, forthcoming, approaching |
| impending | approaching, nearing, looming, threatening |
| minatory | menacing, threatening, alarming |
| presage | prediction, indication, warning, prophesy |
| bode | foreshadow, forecast, herald |
| propitiate | win or gain favor, appease, mollify, placate |
| harbinger | signal, omen, augury, portent |
| renounce | abandon, reject, relinquish |
| dissipation | wantonness, debauchery, dissolution, decadence |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a right, marginalize, subjugate, deprive |
| forfeiture | abandonment, lose or be deprived of, relinquishment |
| privation | deprivation, hardship, poverty |
| propitious | advantageous, promising, auspicious |
| auspicious | encouraging, favorable, providential |
| boon | advantage, benefit, blessing |
| travesty | grotesque, debased likeness; distortion, perversion, sham |
| debacle | a fiasco, failure, catastrophe |
| fiasco | blunder, catastrophe, failure |
| recalcitrant | disobedient, uncontrollable, intractable, rebellious |
| fractious | bad-tempered, irritable, grouchy |
| refractory | stubborn, headstrong, willful |
| obstreperous | noisy, blusterous, boisterous, rowdy |
| intransigent | uncompromising, inflexible, obstinate |
| incorrigible | not able to be corrected, incurable, unreformed |
| dogged | determined, persistent, resolute, tenacious |
| decorum | behavior in keeping with good taste, decency, respectability |
| finesse | refined delicacy, artful subtlety, expertise |
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