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To absorb or occupy all of someone’s attention.
What is to engross?
Involving a betrayal of trust. Characterized by behavior that deceives or is disloyal to someone who trusts you.
What is treacherous?
To gently and persistency urge someone to take a particular action, often through kind words or flattery.
What is to coax?
Showing inventiveness or skill in the art of deception.
What is cunning?
Ordinary, unexciting, or unimaginative. Derives from a Latin root word that means "belonging to the world."
What is mundane?
Historically, a member of a group of Norwegian warriors who were said to put themselves into a state of trance-like fury before battle. Today, the word can be used to refer to someone who is frenzied or wildly irrational.
What is a berserker?
A circumstance or event that occurs by chance or coincidence. The word usually refers to events which produce a desirable result.
What is happenstance?
A person’s usual way of thinking and behaving or general attitude towards life.
What is a disposition?
Having spiritual powers or qualities that are not immediately apparent to the senses or easily explained. Related to spiritual experience that is outside or beyond ordinary human perception.
What is mystical?
Difficult to describe, find, achieve, or remember.
What is elusive?
Related to fireworks. May also be used figuratively to describe something that is extraordinarily impressive or demonstrates great skill.
What is pyrotechnic?
To completely defeat or overpower.
What is to vanquish?
Giving the impression that something bad, evil, or tragic is going to happen.
What is ominous?
A line of people on horses, in horsedrawn carriages, or in other vehicles travelling in a ceremonial procession.
What is a cavalcade?
A standard framework, model, or set of assumptions that defines how a particular subject is understood.
What is a paradigm?
To rise above or go beyond a limit of some kind.
What is to transcend?
Characterized by irreverence or disrespect towards something that is held sacred.
What is blasphemous?
To predict something based on past experience or known data. To use known, specific details to make a general conclusion about something unknown.
What is to extrapolate?
Someone who looks exactly like someone else but who is not related to that person. The word is borrowed directly from a German word that translates literally as "double-goer."
What is a doppelgänger?