Future predictions vocabulary

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Predict

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Anticipate

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Augur means to:

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Predict

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Clairvoyant

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A person who can foresee the future

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________ is to say what you think is going to happen in the future.

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Predict

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Complete the sentence: If the weather ______ calls for cloudy skies, you will grab your umbrella. Options: prevent, forecast, studies, feelings

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forecast

Answer explanation

Something to learn about:

1st conditional

Also, the prefix 'fore' comes from the adverb 'before', meaning [situated in front of something else -> forward] or [prior in order of occurrence->former].

(Merrian Webster dictionary).

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Complete the sentence: If dark clouds ________ storm, no clouds ____________ a sunny day.

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augur, will prognosticate

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Complete the sentence: ______ is an event that you take as a sign of something to come. Options: Failure, Effort, Cataclysm, Omen

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Omen

Answer explanation

An omen is [an occurrence or phenomenon believed to portend a future event -> AUGURY]

(Merrian Webster dictionary).

The omen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS-sXcx30O4

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Omen

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Portentous

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prognosticate: When large rivers two miles broad, such as at Liverpool, appear narrow, it is said to prognosticate rain.

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Foretell