Predicting the Future: A Vocabulary Guide
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Words for Predicting the Future
Prescient - knowing or suggesting what will happen in the future
Prognosticate - to foretell from signs or symptoms
Prophecy - a prediction of what will happen in the future
Speculate - form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence
People Who Make Predictions
Town Planner - a professional involved in the planning and control of the construction, growth, and development of a town or other urban area
Weather Forecaster - someone whose job is to study the weather and predict what it will be like in the future
Career Advisor - someone who gives information about education and work opportunities to children and youths
Financial Advisor - a person whose job is to provide financial advice to clients
Football Scout - someone who attends matches with the objective of finding potential players for their club to sign
Market Analyst - the person responsible for studying market conditions to assess the potential sales of products and services
Expressions Related to the Future
Ahead of Someone's Time - more innovative than can be properly appreciated during the time that someone or something is producing such innovation
A Sign of Things to Come - an indication of how the future is likely to develop
Take Something as a Good Omen - to interpret something as a sign of good fortune or a propitious outcome
Look a Bit Bleak - to seem or appear very unfavorable or utterly hopeless
In the Not Too Distant Future - at a time that is not long from now
Tomorrow's Another Day - an expression used to convey that things may be better in the future
Take a Rain Check - to postpone something to a later time
To/Until the End of Time - to emphasize that something will always happen or be true
Only Time Will Tell - used to say that the truth will only be known in the future after events have happened
No Time to Lose - an expression used to tell someone to hurry
Like There's No Tomorrow - to do something quickly and carelessly without any thought about the future
Save Something for a Rainy Day - to save money for a time when it might be needed
Just Around the Corner - very near in the future
Have Time on Your Side - to have the advantage of time in a situation
To Burn Your Bridges - to do something which makes it impossible to return to a previous state or relationship
More Words About the Future
Anticipate - regard as probable; expect or predict
Augur - to foretell, especially from omens
Clairvoyant - a person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact
Forebode - act as an advance warning of (a future event)
Forecast - predict or estimate (a future event or trend)
Foresee - be aware of beforehand; predict
Foreshadow - be a warning or indication of (a future event)
Fortune Teller - a person who is supposedly able to predict a person's future by palmistry, using a crystal ball, or similar methods
Imagine - form a mental image or concept of something
Omen - an event regarded as a portent of good or evil
Palm Reader - a person who is supposedly able to predict someone's future by interpreting the lines on the palms of their hands
Portend - say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something
Premonition - a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant
Looking at Things
Gazed - looked steadily and intently, especially in admiration
Glance - to look quickly or briefly
Anticipate - regard as probable: except or predict
Augur - to foretell especially from omens
Career adviser - someone who gives information about education and work opportunities to children and youths
Clairvoyant - a person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact
Financial adviser - a person whose job is to provide financial advice to clients
Football scout - someone who attends matches with the objective of finding potential players for their club to sign
Forebode - act as an advance warning of (a future event)
Forecast - predic or estimate (a future event or trend)
Foresee - be aware of beforehead; predict
Foreshadow - be a warming or indication of (a future event)
Fortune teller - a person who is supposedly able to predict a person´s future by palmistry, using a crystal ball, or similar methods
Imagine - form a mental image or concept of something
Market analyst - the person responsible for studying market conditions to assess the potential sales of produccts ans services
Omen - an event regarded as a portent of good or evil
Palm reader- a person who is supposedly able to predict someone´s future by interpreting the lines on the palms of their hands
Portend - say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something
Premonition - a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant
Just around the corner - very near
Have time on your side - used to say that a person will have good chance
To burn your bridges - do something wich makes it impossible to reuturn
Contrast
althought (aunque) while (mientras)even if (incluso si)
even so (aun asi) despite of/inspite of (a pesar de)
comparison
comparison of degree comparison of manner
We use than We use as
ex: i am better than him ex: It all ended as we expected
Futuro
- be going to -- I am going to visit my friends
- Present Continous-- this summer i´m visiting my friend
- Present simple--the exam starts at 4 o´clock
- Future simple(WILL)-- I think i will be a doctor
-Future perfect(WILL+HAVE)--she will have cleaned the house
-Future Continous(WILL+BE+ING)-- she will be working