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Augury

The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Narrower term 6

Omen 76% connected

An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a p…

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Portent 76% connected

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.

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Presage 76% connected

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

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Prodigy 76% connected

Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed…

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Prognostic 76% connected

Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

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Prognostication 76% connected

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

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Inaugurate 74% connected

Invested with office; inaugurated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Inaugurate 74% connected

Invested with office; inaugurated.

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Foretoken 92% connected

Prognostic; previous omen.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Sign 92% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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