It's the word of the day for May 5th.
Smokey the Bear.
Smokey.
Then you know why Smokey tells you when he sees you passing through.
Remember, please be careful, it's the least that you can do.
Don't play with fire.
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Today's word is augur, spelled A-U-G-U-R.
Augur is a verb.
To augur is to show or suggest, especially from omens, that something might happen in the future.
Used most often in formal speech or writing, augur 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 augur 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.