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  • 91augur — prognosticate, presage, portend, forebode, prophesy, forecast , *foretell, predict Analogous words: betoken, *indicate, bespeak, argue: apprehend, anticipate, divine, foreknow, *foresee …

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  • 92divine — adj *holy, sacred, spiritual, religious, blessed divine vb *foresee, foreknow, apprehend, anticipate Analogous words: discern, perceive, descry (see SEE): predict, prophesy, prognosticate, presage (see FORETELL) …

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  • 93expect — expect, hope, look, await are comparable when they mean to have something in mind as more or less certain to happen or come about. They vary, however, so greatly in their implications and in their constructions that they are seldom… …

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  • 94forecast — vb predict, *foretell, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage, portend, forebode Analogous words: *foresee, foreknow, anticipate, apprehend, divine: surmise, Conjecture, guess: *infer, gather, conclude …

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  • 95foretell — foretell, predict, forecast, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage, portend, forebode are comparable when meaning to tell something before it happens through special knowledge or occult power. Foretell and predict are frequently interchangeable …

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  • 96happen — vb Happen, chance, occur, befall, betide, transpire are comparable when they mean to come to pass or to come about. Happen is the ordinary and general term and may imply either obvious causation or seeming accident, either design or an absence of …

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  • 97hope — vb *expect, look, await Analogous words: aspire, *aim, pant: yearn, *long, hunger, thirst, pine: *rely, trust, depend, count, bank, reckon: anticipate, *foresee, foreknow, divine Antonyms: despair (of) …

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  • 98look# — look vb 1 *see, watch Analogous words: *gaze, gape, stare, glare, peer: *scrutinize, scan, inspect, examine 2 *seem, appear Analogous words: indicate, betoken, bespeak: * …

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  • 99predict — *foretell, forecast, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage, portend, forebode Analogous words: *foresee, foreknow, divine: *warn, forewarn, caution: surmise, Conjecture, guess …

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  • 100prognosticate — *foretell, predict, forecast, prophesy, augur, presage, portend, forebode Analogous words: *indicate, betoken, bespeak: *foresee, foreknow, apprehend, divine, anticipate …

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