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Forebode

To foretell.

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Manner of action 8

Augur 76% connected

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenome…

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Bet 76% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Forecast 76% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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Prophesy 76% connected

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Vaticinate 76% connected

To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

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Wager 76% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hazard 76% connected

A game of chance played with dice.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pretend 76% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Venture 76% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Anticipation 74% connected

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Anticipation 74% connected

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Predictive 74% connected

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Predictive 74% connected

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Predictor 74% connected

One who predicts; a foreteller.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Predictor 74% connected

One who predicts; a foreteller.

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Synonym 6

Anticipate 92% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Call 92% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foretell 92% connected

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Predict 92% connected

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prognosticate 92% connected

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Promise 92% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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