foreboder
fore·bode
(fôr-bōd′)v. fore·bod·ed, fore·bod·ing, fore·bodes
v.tr.1. To indicate the likelihood of; portend: harsh words that foreboded estrangement.
2. To have a premonition of (a future misfortune).
v.intr. To prophesy or predict.
fore·bod′er n.
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Unbeknownst to the
foreboders, the youngsters were listening to cynghanedd on their Sony Walkman, and reading Anghenion y Gynghanedd in between games of Pacman.
A shadowy style of imitation would be an suitable way of presenting women who, in part, function as ghostly
foreboders and companions of death.
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