Today's Words to Define

auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery

auspicious: \ô-spĭsh'əs\; promising success; propitious; opportune; favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate; attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success.
belie: \bĭ-lī'\; to show to be false; contradict; to misrepresent; to act unworthily according to the standards of (a tradition, one's ancestry, one's faith, etc.)
bellicose: \běl'ĭ-kōs'\; inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious; warlike or hostile in manner or temperament; having or showing a ready disposition to fight.
bowdlerize: \bōd'lə-rīz', boud'-\; to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
chicanery: \shĭ-kā'nə-rē, chĭ-\; deception by trickery or sophistry; the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).