| augur | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: auspex |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) predict from an omen | - |
| augury | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: foretoken, preindication, sign |
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| bulgur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulghur, bulgur wheat |
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| configuration | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: conformation, contour, form, shape |
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| (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: constellation |
| configurational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by configuration | - |
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| configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| configured | (adjective) organized so as to give configuration to | - |
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| disfiguration | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfigurement |
| disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, deface |
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| disfigured | (adjective) having the appearance spoiled | - |
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| disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
| exaugural | (adjective) occurring at or marking the close of a term of office | - |
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| figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| figure | (noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating | - |
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| (noun) a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) | - |
| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (noun) the impression produced by a person | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground | - |
| (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: fig |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: name, public figure |
| (noun) an amount of money expressed numerically | - |
| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: digit |
| (noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape | - |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| figured | (adjective) (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns | - |
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| figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
| figurer | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, reckoner |
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| figurine | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: statuette |
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| figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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| fulgurant | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurous |
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| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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| gurgle | (noun) the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck | - |
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| (verb) utter with a gurgling sound | - |
| (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: guggle |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, ripple |
| (verb) make sounds similar to gurgling water | - |
| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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| guru | (noun) a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher | - |
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| (noun) a recognized leader in some field or of some movement | - |
| inaugural | (adjective) occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction | - |
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| (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, initiative, initiatory, maiden |
| (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inauguration |
| (noun) an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) | Synonyms: inaugural address |
| inaugurally | (adverb) so as to inaugurate | - |
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| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| inauguration | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inaugural |
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| (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: startup |
| ingurgitate | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| kagura | (noun) a stately dance of the Shinto religion that now forms a part of Japanese village festivals. | - |
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| langur | (noun) slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | - |
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| mikagura | (noun) a type of formal ritual Shinto kagura dance. | - |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| oliguria | (noun) production of an abnormally small amount of urine | - |
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| (noun) abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body | - |
| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| regur | (noun) a rich black loam of India | Synonyms: regur soil |
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| regurgitate | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: reproduce |
| (verb) feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food | - |
| (verb) pour or rush back | - |
| regurgitation | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, vomit, vomiting |
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| (noun) recall after rote memorization | - |
| (noun) backflow of blood through a defective heart valve | - |
| subfigure | (noun) a figure that is a part of another figure | - |
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| transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| transfigure | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, spiritualize |
| yogurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yoghurt |
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| ziggurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: zikkurat, zikurat |
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