spectrenoun
UK US specter uk/ˈspek.tər/us/ˈspek.tɚ/the spectre of sth
the idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future:
The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.
Drought and war have raised the spectre of food shortages for up to 24 million African people.
[ C ] literary a ghost noun
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Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- projection
- prophesy
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scent
- visionary
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