GRE vocabulary
Adumbrate
To foreshadow or vaguely indicate something; to outline sketchily.
Example
"The dark clouds adumbrated a coming storm, both literal and metaphorical."
Etymology
From Latin adumbrare 'to cast a shadow, to shade, to sketch', from ad- 'to' + umbra 'shadow'.
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