Today's Word "augury"
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augury \AW-gyuh-ree\ (noun) - 1 : The art or practice of foretelling events; divination. 2 : An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future.
"Pauline's new work is a bleak monument to a conflict that is remembered now mainly as an augury of World War II."
Augury is from Latin augurium, from augur, a soothsayer.
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