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| banshee |
a female spirit in Irish folk stories. Banshees wail to predict someone's death. |
| barometer |
an instrument that measures the pressure of the atmosphere and is used to predict the weather. |
| forecast |
to state as likely to happen; predict. [1/2 definitions] |
| foresee |
to see in advance as likely to happen; predict. |
| foretell |
to tell of as likely or certain to happen; forecast; predict. |
| irregular |
When there is no real pattern or rule for something, we call it "irregular." When something is irregular, you cannot predict it because it's different each time it occurs. [1/3 definitions] |
| pattern |
A pattern is a design or arrangement of shapes, numbers, lines, colors or other things that repeat in a way that you can predict. [2/5 definitions] |
| predict |
When you predict something, you say that something will happen in the future. [1/2 definitions] |
| random |
When things are random, they happen just by chance and no one can predict them. There is no order or pattern to when or why they happen. |
| root1 |
A root is major building block of a word. A root is often a complete word by itself, but very often it is part of a word, and it is the part of a word that other parts can attach to. Roots also carry the main part of a word's meaning. For example, there is a root, "dict," that means "tell." It's not a word by itself, but you can add the word part "pre-" in front of it and get the word "predict." "Pre-" is something called a "prefix," and the meaning of "pre-" is "before" or "earlier." When you "predict" something, you tell that it will happen before it actually happens. You can also add "-able" to the end of "predict." The word part "-able" is something called a "suffix" and its meaning has to do with ability. When you add "-able" to "predict," you get the word "predictable." When something is predictable, you are able to predict that it will happen. The word "predictable" is made up of a prefix, a root, and a suffix. [1/6 definitions] |
| sometime |
If we say that something will happen "sometime," we mean that we hope or are sure it will happen in the future but we can't predict when it will happen. "Sometime" has the same meaning as "eventually" or "some day." [1/2 definitions] |
| understand |
If you understand something, you know very well how it works. If you understand people or animals, you know why they do things and you can often predict what they will do. [1/3 definitions] |
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