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caudillo
confect
incalescent
premonitory


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PRONUNCIATION:

(pri-MAH-nuh-tor-ee)

MEANING:

adjective: Serving as a warning or sign of something to come, especially something unpleasant.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin praemonere, from prae (before) + monere (warn). Earliest documented use: 1647.

USAGE:

“The sultry and incalescent weather of yesterday betokens the inauguration of ‘heated term’ in earnest. ... Shortly after 5 o’clock, a perceptible and acceptable change occurred in the temperature premonitory of the fall of a protracted shower.”
The Weather Yesterday; The New York Times; May 27, 1869.

See more usage examples of premonitory in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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