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- anterior
- placed in front; earlier
- augur
- one who predicts the future
- auspicious
- favorable
- bygone
- of the past
- callow
- immature
- careen
- to rush recklessly
- celerity
- speed
- concomitant
- happening at the same time
- contemporary
- modern
- cursory
- brief
- dilatory
- slow
- dispatch
- to send off to do a specific job
- diurnal
- relating to daytime; active during the day
- eon
- very long period
- ephemeral
- short-lived
- episode
- one event in a series
- epoch
- a period of history
- erratic
- unsteady
- evanescent
- vanishing
- extant
- not extinct
- extemporize
- to speak or perform without preparation
- foresight
- ability to predict or plan for the future
- forestall
- to prevent
- forgo/forego
- to do without; to give up
- fortuitous
- accidental; lucky
- fountainhead
- beginning; origin
- genesis
- beginning; origin
- habituation
- getting used to something
- harbinger
- a sign or omen; a messenger
- hasten
- to speed up
- heretofore
- until now
- hiatus
- break; pause
- hindsight
- understanding of something after it has happened
- hitherto
- until now
- holdover
- leftover from an earlier time
- inception
- beginning
- indelible
- permanent; not erasable
- inert
- unable to move; inactive
- intermittent
- stopping and starting; not continuous
- inveterate
- habitual
- jaunt
- a short trip
- memento
- reminder of the past
- moratorium
- an official delay; a period of inactivity
- motif
- a central theme
- myopic
- shortsighted; unable to plan ahead
- neophyte
- beginner; inexperienced person
- newfangled
- new; trendy
- nimble
- moving lightly and quickly
- obsolete
- out-of-date; no longer used
- oscillate
- to move back and forth
- overture
- musical introduction
- perpetuate
- to prolong; to cause to continue
- plateau
- a flat area
- portend
- to foreshadow; to mean
- preclude
- to prevent
- precocious
- developing early; mature beyond one's years
- precursor
- person or thing that comes before another
- predecessor
- person who previously held a position
- preemt
- to prevent by acting first
- prefigure
- to indicate in advance
- prescient
- having foresight; able to predict the future
- primitive
- from early civilization; undeveloped; very simple
- project
- to extend out
- prophet
- one who predicts the future
- prospect
- future possibility
- prototype
- original model
- protract
- to prolong; to delay
- providence
- foresight; caution
- provisional
- temporary
- rash
- hurried; without thinking
- recede
- to retreat; to move backward
- recur
- to happen again
- reinstate
- to restore to a former position
- relentless
- constant
- respite
- a rest period
- retroactive
- applying to an earlier period
- retrograde
- to go back to an earlier or worse condition
- retrogress
- to go back to an earlier or simpler condition
- retrospect
- looking back on the past
- revert
- to return to an earlier condition
- seer
- one who can predict the future
- serendipity
- luckiness; fortunate accident
- shortsighted
- unable to plan well for the future
- sojourn
- a temporary stay
- soothsayer
- fortune-teller; one who can see the future
- static
- not moving; not changing
- stopgap
- temporary or emergency substitute
- stunt
- to hinder; to slow
- table
- to delay considering something
- tarry
- to delay or be late
- temporize
- to delay making a decision; to procrastinate
- tenure
- permanent employment
- thenceforward
- from that time on
- throwback
- reappearance of an earlier type or stage
- timeless
- eternal
- timework
- repeated or used too often
- transient
- temporary
- transitory
- temporary
- ubiquitous
- everywhere at the same time
- unremitting
- constant
- untimely
- badly timed; premature
- upshot
- outcome; final result
- urgency
- the need for immediate action
- vagary
- sudden desire; unpredictable event
- vanguard
- leading position; trendsetter