Synonyms of the word

prophesy

• v. To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
• v. To predict, to foretell.
• v. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
• v. (intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

forebode

• v. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
• v. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is…
• n. (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

foretell

• v. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.

lecture

• n. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
• n. A berating or scolding.
• n. (obsolete) The act of reading.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
• v. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

preach

• v. (intransitive) To give a sermon.
• v. (transitive) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
• v. (transitive) To advise or recommend earnestly.
• v. (transitive) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
• n. (obsolete) A religious discourse.

predict

• v. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge…
• v. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
• v. (intransitive) To make predictions.
• v. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
• n. (obsolete) A prediction.

prognosticate

• v. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
• v. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

promise

• n. (countable) An oath or affirmation; a vow.
• n. (countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render…
• n. (uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
• n. (countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has…
• n. (countable, obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
• v. (transitive) To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.
• v. (intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

vaticinate

• v. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly formal) to predict or foretell (future events).