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  • 81prediction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Foretelling the future Nouns 1. prediction, announcement; premonition, warning; prophecy, vaticination, prognosis, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; foreboding, presentiment,… …

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  • 82presage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. portent, prophecy, augury, forecast, omen; prediction, precursor, harbinger, forerunner; inkling, promise. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. augur, forecast, predict; see foretell . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) I …

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  • 83priority — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Precedence in time Nouns 1. priority, antecedence, anteriority, primogeniture; preexistence; precession; precursor, forerunner; past; premises. See precedence, ancestry, beginning. 2. precursor,… …

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  • 84sign — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. omen, portent; indication, symptom, token, mark; symbol, emblem; gesture, signal; trace, vestige; signboard, shingle; guidepost. See indication, direction. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A signal] Syn.… …

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  • 85augury — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. prediction prophesy, divination, forecast, forewarning, soothsaying, forecasting. 2. omen portent, sign, harbinger, herald, forewarning. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A phenomenon that serves as a sign or… …

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  • 86prognostic — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I adjective Of or relating to prediction: predictive, prog nosticative. See FORESIGHT. II noun A phenomenon that serves as a sign or warning of some future good or evil: augury, forerunner, foretoken, omen, portent,… …

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  • 87prognostication — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act of predicting: forecast, outlook, prediction, prognosis, projection. See FORESIGHT. 2. A phenomenon that serves as a sign or warning of some future good or evil: augury, forerunner, foretoken, omen, portent …

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  • 88Prediction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Prediction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 prediction prediction announcement Sgm: N 1 program program programme &c.(plan) 626 Sgm: N 1 premonition premonition &c.(warning) 668 Sgm: N 1 prognosis prognosis …

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  • 89prefigure — verb 1》 be an early indication or version of. 2》 archaic imagine beforehand. Derivatives prefiguration noun prefigurative adjective prefigurement noun Origin ME: from eccles. L. praefigurare represent beforehand , from prae before + figurare to… …

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  • 90symbolization — n. Representation, indication, prefigurement …

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