Why this word is great
PREOMINATE — [Verb] To feel foreboding about; to prophesy or be a portent or omen of. From pre- ("before") + ominate ("to prophesy or portend"), derived from Latin ominari ("to forebode"). Unlike "augur" (which implies ritualistic divination) or "presage" (which may herald joy), "preominate" is the shadow that falls across the threshold unbidden. It is the way the birds go silent before the earthquake, the way a lover’s hesitation lingers a beat too long, the way the old oak groans in the wind the night before it splits—the body’s silent knowledge that something is coming, and that it will not be kind.