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Foreshadow V Give Indication Portend Prefigure Retrospect Political

Word foreshadow
Part of Speech V.
Definition give an indication beforehand; portend; prefigure.
Sentence In retrospect, political analysts realized that Yeltsin's defiance of the attempted coup foreshadowed his emergence as the dominant figure of the new Russian republic.

Tags: psat

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