Monday, September 24, 2007

Word of the Week #4

HARBINGER

Source: Probationary Americans

Article: The New Immigration Law

How it was used: The Act of 1990 was both a culmination of modest, earlier reforms and a harbinger of things to come.

Definition: (noun)

1. a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
2.anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign:
3.a person sent in advance of troops, a royal train, etc., to provide or secure lodgings and other accommodations.

My sentence: To wake up and find your car with icy windows is a harbinger that winter time is coming close.

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