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Prognosticate

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

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Manner of action 10

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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Foreshow 76% connected

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

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Prophesy 76% connected

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Threaten 76% connected

To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeab…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Broader term 9

Bespeak 76% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Betoken 76% connected

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Indicate 76% connected

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Pretend 76% connected

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

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Signal 76% connected

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

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.

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Derivationally related 4

Premonition 74% connected

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Premonition 74% connected

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

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Synonym 16

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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Augur 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Auspicate 92% connected

Auspicious.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Betoken 92% connected

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bode 92% connected

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

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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Forebode 92% connected

To foretell.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forecast 92% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foreshadow 92% connected

To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

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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Omen 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Portend 92% connected

To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

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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Prefigure 92% connected

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Presage 92% connected

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

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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