| Term | Definition |
|---|
| propitious | favorable or positive |
| auspicious | marked by success or favorable circumstances |
| boon | stroke of good luck |
| adverse | turned against, opposing |
| detrimental | causing damage, harm, or loss |
| travesty | grotesque parody |
| debacle | sudden, disastrous downfall |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| rout | disorderly retreat after battle |
| enormity | monstrous evil or outrage; enormousness |
| recalcitrant | stubbornly resistant to authority |
| obdurate | hardhearted |
| fractious | peevish, cranky |
| refractory | resistant to authority or control |
| intractable | difficult to manage or govern |
| obstreperous | aggressively and noisily defiant |
| intransigent | stubbornly uncompromising |
| incorrigible | uncorrectable, unreformable |
| dogged | stubbornly persevering |
| dogmatic | stubbornly asserting an unproved or unprovable opinion |
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