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11augury — n 1. prognostication, prophecy, prediction, prefigurement, vaticination, soothsaying, fortune telling, foretelling; divination, geomancy, sortilege, (in ancient Rome) haruspicy; clairvoyance, second sight. 2. omen, sign, portent, token,… …
12auspice — n 1.Usu. auspices patronage, support, sponsorship, protection, aegis; championship, advocacy, favor, approval, sanction, countenance; moral support, encouragement, assistance, aid, help, defense; security, safeguard, palladium; wardenship,… …
13oracle — n 1. wiseman, sage, prophet, sibyl; augur, seer, soothsayer, prognosticator, fortuneteller, foreteller, predictor, forecaster, foreseer; diviner, divina tor, necromancer, magus, sorcerer, sorceress, spiritualist; theurgist, astrologer, horoscoper …
14premonition — n 1. preindication, forewarning, foreshadowing, handwriting on the wall; omen, sign, portent, token, foretoken, harbinger; prognostic, prognostication, bodement, forecast, augury. 2. presentiment, presage, foreboding, feeling, vague feeling, Inf …
15presage — n 1. presentiment, foreboding, feeling, vague feeling, Inf. funny feeling, Inf. feeling in one s bones, suspicion, Inf. sneaking suspicion, Inf. hunch, intuition; anxiety, misgiving, apprehension, apprehen siveness, boding; dread, fear, ill… …
16bode — I. /boʊd / (say bohd) verb (boded, boding) –verb (t) 1. to be an omen of; portend. 2. Archaic to announce beforehand; predict. –verb (i) 3. to portend. {Middle English boden, Old English bodian announce, foretell, from boda messenger} –bodement,… …
17omen — [n] sign of something to come augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, straw, warning, writing on the wall*; concepts 74,278,689 …
18portent — [n1] indication, forewarning augury, bodement, boding, caution, clue, foreboding, foreshadowing, foretoken, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall*, harbinger, hunch, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, sign,… …
19presage — [n] prediction, indication apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice, bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication,… …
20keys — According to a character in Thomas Hardy s novel Far From the Madding Crowd (1874, chapter 33), breaking a key was a bad sign: I went to unlock the door and dropped the key, and it fell upon the stone floor and broke into two pieces. Breaking… …
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