Future predictions vocabulary

Predict means to:

• Perform

• Anticipate

• Adorn

• Volunteer

Augur means to:

• Predict

• Allow

• Hide

• Luck

Clairvoyant means:

• Concise and full of meaning

• A person of interest in a trial

• A person who can forsee the future

• Using your regular five senses

Foreshadow means:

(There might be more than one right answer)

• Prefigure

• Coagulate

• Belittle

• Prognosticate

Answer explanation

Prognosticate comes from the latin prognosticāre, which means 'making a prediction'.

The prefix 'fore' means 'in-front' or 'in advance'.

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

• Volunteer

• Pretend

• Predict

• Compound

Complete the sentence:

If the weather ______ calls for cloudy skies, you will grab your umbrella.

• prevent

• forecast

• studies

• feelings

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).

Complete the sentence:

If dark clouds ________ storm, no clouds ____________ a sunny day.

• augur,

  will prognosticate

• rain,

  prognosticate

• augur,

  rain

• prognosticate,

  will prevent

Complete the sentence:

______ is an event that you take as a sign of something to come.

• Failure

• Effort

• Cataclysm

• 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

This word is a synonym for 'omen'. It describes something that seems to be a sign related to a future event. Generally, it is considered a warning of a future disaster.

• Temper

• Preventing

• Evoque

• Portentous

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

In this sentence, prognosticate means to:

• Desire

• Absorb

• Limit

• Foretell