What is a Soft Opening? Soft openings are a good way for businesses to attract customers and draw a large crowd in preparation for before the grand opening. New sports stadiums may host amateur or semi-pro sports events before hosting a game played by a professional sports team.
Incense means both to make angry and a stick that burns slowly and emits a strong smell. If your new college roommate burns incense in your tiny dorm room, you might get incensed and storm out. How can a word that means a substance that is burned for its sweet odor come to mean make very angry?
Liturgy is the customary public worship performed by a religious group, according to its beliefs, customs and traditions. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy is a communal response to and participation in, the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, supplication or repentance. Ritualization may be associated with life events such as birth, coming of age, marriage and death.