Word of the Day Sunday, March 28, 2010
portentous
\por-TEN-tus\ , adjective;
1. Foreboding; foreshadowing, especially foreshadowing ill; ominous.
2. Marvelous; prodigious; wonderful; as, a beast of portentous size.
3. Pompous.
She leaned on her shovel for a moment, in between moving piles of ravel, and looked up at the sky. Dark purple, portentous clouds were moving towards them from the southwest.
She wiped her brow and scooped up a shovel full of gravel as her dad came around the corner with the wheel barrow. They would just keep working until that rain cloud broke. Luckily it appeared it would happen any moment now.
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