GRE Words: Gre Group: Future Telling

1. Augury (n): a sign of what will happen in the future; omen; prophecy
2. Bode (v): to be a good/ bad sign for somebody or something; foreshadow; protend
   use: these trading figures don’t bode well for the company’s future
3. Divine (v): perceive intuitively; foresee the future.
   
4. Presentiment (n): feeling something will happen; anticipatory fear; premonition.
5. Premonition (n): forewarning; a feeling that something is going to happen esp. something unpleasant.
   Premonition of death/ disaster
6. Prognosis (n): a forecast of the probable development of something; forecasted course of disease; prediction
   The long –term prognosis of the company’s future is very encouraging
7. Prognosticate (v): predict
8. Prophetic (adj): having to do with predicting the future
   A prophetic warning
9. Prophecy (v): a statement that tells what will happen in the future- Religious prophecies.
                       : The power of saying what will happen in the future.
   He seemed to have the gift of prophecy.
10. Prophesy (v): to say what will happen in the future.
    Prophesy disaster.
11. Seer (n): a person of supposed supernatural insight who sees visions of the future