It's the word of the day for May 5th.

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You're built to win it. Today's word is auger, spelled A-U-R. Auger is a verb. To auger is to show or suggest,

especially from omens, that something might happen in the future. Used most often in formal speech or writing, auger is often followed by an adverb, such as well.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Art Forum.

Last March, almost exactly two decades after his ghost church appeared at the Whitney,

Banks Violet put another

destroyed structure on display, the canopy of an abandoned gas station split in half. This wreckage

could only auger doom. In ancient Rome, augurs were official diviners whose function it was

to divine whether the gods approved of a proposed

undertaking, such as a military move. They did so by various means, among them observing the behavior

of birds and examining the entrails of sacrificed animals. We doubt the Romans predicted that

their verb augurare, meaning to foretell

by augury, would evolve into an English verb, meaning presage or foretell, but in retrospect,

auger's path must have been in the stars. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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