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foreshadowing
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, be in the wind, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, telegraph |
| Main Entry: | portent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, forewarning |
| Synonyms: | augury, bodement, boding, caution, clue, foreboding, foreshadowing, foretoken, funny feeling, handwriting on the wall, harbinger, hunch, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, sign, sinking feeling, threat, vibes, warning |
| Main Entry: | prophetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling of the future |
| Synonyms: | Delphian, apocalyptic, augural, divinatory, fatidic, foreshadowing, mantic, occult, oracular, predictive, presaging, prescient, prognostic, prophetical, pythonic, sibylline, vaticinal, veiled |
| Main Entry: | revelation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure, telling |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, blow by blow, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, divulgement, earful, epiphany, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, eye-opener, flash, foreshadowing, inspiration, leak, lightning bolt, manifestation, news, oracle, proclamation, prophecy, publication, scoop*, showing, sign, the latest, tip, uncovering, unearthing, unveiling, vision |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, evidence |
| Synonyms: | assurance, augury, auspice, badge, beacon, bell, caution, clue, divination, flag, flash, foreboding, foreknowledge, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, gesture, giveaway, handwriting on wall, harbinger, herald, high sign, hint, light, manifestation, mark, nod, note, omen, portent, precursor, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, prognostic, proof, signal, suggestion, symbol, symptom, token, trace, vestige, warning, wave, whistle, wink |
| Main Entry: | threat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning; danger |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, hazard, impendence, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall |
| Main Entry: | sign of things to come |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | danger sign, foreshadowing, handwriting on the wall, harbinger, portent, prediction, preindication, premonition, sign, signal, warning, warning sign |
| Main Entry: | augural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
| Synonyms: | divinatory, fatidic, fatidical, foreshadowing, mantic, ominous, oracular, predictive, presaging, prophetical, sibylline, telling, vatic, vatical, visionary |
| Main Entry: | auspice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, foreshadowing, harbinger, portent, prognostication, sign, warning |
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