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oracular

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obscurely portentous, as if delivering ambiguous prophecies

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The critic's oracular pronouncements left readers guessing at his real opinion.

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The committee dismissed the proposal as blank, pointing out that its projected revenues depended on conditions no economy had ever sustained.

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Oracular (adjective) means obscurely portentous, as if delivering ambiguous prophecies
Here is oracular used in an example sentence: "The critic's oracular pronouncements left readers guessing at his real opinion."
Common synonyms for oracular include prophetic, cryptic, sibylline.
Antonyms of oracular include plain, explicit, unambiguous.
Oracular is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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