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auspicious
promising success, favorable
She awoke to sunshine and mild temperatures--an auspicious beginning of the most important day of her life.
Related English words: auspicate (to begin with a ceremony for bringing good luck), auspicial (having to do with auspices), auspiciousness, inauspicious
Latin root words: auspicium, auspici, n. - divination (attempting to foretell the future) from the flight of birds; auspex, auspicis, m. - a diviner
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