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Portent

Noun
Meaning

• Threatening or disquieting significance:
• A prodigy or marvel.

Slam

Verb
Meaning

• To shut forcibly and noisily
• To set or slap down violently or noisily
• To criticize harshly

Persiflage

Noun
Meaning

• light, bantering talk or writing.
• a frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.

unearth

verb
meaning

• to dig or get out of the earth; dig up.
• to uncover or bring to light by search, inquiry, etc.

Shamble

Noun
Meaning

• A slaughterhouse.
• Any place of carnage.
• Any scene of destruction:

vent

Noun
meaning

• an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like.