characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind. 2. productive of or directed toward the emotions: Artistic distortion is often an emotive use of form.
Portend means to show a sign that something calamitous is about to happen. The teetering, tottering, pile of fine china piled up after the dinner party portends an imminent crash of broken plates and dishes. Portend is a verb warning of omens, or bad signs. Dark clouds rumbling in over a county fair in Kansas portend the thunderstorm and even tornado that is likely to ruin the festivities. Portend is a helpful way for authors to foreshadow dark events ahead in their stories.
rind. n. 1. (Cookery) a hard outer layer or skin on bacon, cheese, etc. 2. (Botany) the outer layer of a fruit or of the spore-producing body of certain fungi.acon rind-the rind of bacon. peel, skin-the rind of a fruit or vegetable. cheese rind-the rind of a cheese. material, stuff-the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; coal is a hard black material; wheat is the stuff they use to make bread.