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To adumbrate is to describe something incompletely or to suggest future events based on limited current knowledge.
Augury is the process or art of reading omens about the future through specific ceremonies.
A decadent person has low moral standards and is more interested in pleasure than serious matters.
When someone disinters a dead body, they dig it up; likewise, something disinterred is exposed or revealed to the public after having been hidden for some time.
To divulge something is to reveal information that was once private or secret.
If you elucidate something, you make it easier to understand by giving more relevant information.
When you envisage something, you imagine or consider its future possibility.
Exegesis is a detailed explanation or interpretation of a piece of writing, especially a religious one.
To explicate an idea or plan is to make it clear by explaining it.
If you fathom something complicated or mysterious, you are able to understand it.
If an idea or thought is incisive, it is expressed in a penetrating and knowledgeable manner that is clear and brief; additionally, it can demonstrate impressive understanding of related ideas or thoughts.
The adjective ineffable refers to something that is so impressive and beautiful that you cannot describe it in words.
Something mediocre is average or ordinary in quality; it’s just OK.
Something that is mundane is very ordinary and not interesting or exciting, especially because it happens very often.
To obfuscate something is to make it deliberately unclear, confusing, and difficult to understand.
Something is opaque if it is either difficult to understand or is not transparent.
Someone who demonstrates perspicacity notices or understands things very quickly.
To presage a future event is to give a sign or warning that something (usually) bad is about to happen.
To prognosticate is to predict or forecast something.
Something that is quotidian is done on a daily basis.
A revelation is the uncovering or telling of once-secret information that is often surprising or valuable.
If you are suffering from tedium, you are bored.
Something that is transcendent not only surpasses all others in quality, achievement, or significance, but exceeds normal limits or boundaries.
A wastrel is a lazy person who wastes time and money.
Noun
epiphany
i-PIF-uh-nee
Context
Amira was walking down the street one morning when she experienced a sudden moment of clarity or epiphany about her life: she was unhappy because she chose unhappiness. That deep epiphany or moment of understanding altered her life in previously unimagined ways, with the result that she became a very happy and cheerful woman. She often joked that if someone were to draw a cartoon of that day, they would have to indicate her epiphany by drawing a lightning bolt striking from the blue.
Quiz:Try again!
What might someone say when they have an epiphany?
HandyPipe I suppose that one way to get an instant epiphany is to smoke that handypipe of yours, but that doesn't really count.
Examples
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.
— Nick Hornby, English writer and lyricist, from _The Polysyllabic Spree_
Robinson realized that her company needed to evolve. She needed to be able to generate revenue without having to put in extra time. She had an epiphany. Rather than provide more services, she needed to sell more digital products.
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Forbes
We started talking and what fascinated me at the time was when they told me that Quincy has the largest Asian population per capita. I had an epiphany,” he said. “As an immigrant, I’ve always seen myself as a minority. . . I thought ‘Really? Me, as a majority?’ And that’s when it clicked for me.”
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USA Today
"The stars aligned for Craig, and he had this epiphany," explains David Rocchio, recounting his business partner’s concern about America’s future prosperity when he came into the office the next morning.
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The Christian Science Monitor
