All the signs point towards your success now that you’re learning how to use these Ultimate Vocabulary words. And the first two words in this section refer to favorable circumstances: auspicious and propitious. They both mean favorable, advantageous, boding well, a good omen. Usually, you’ll use “auspicious” when you want to communicate the sense that the advantage or good fortune is due to an outside influence. The Latin root originally referred to divination, the art of reading signs in the natural world to decipher the will of the gods.

Example:  “It seemed auspicious that all of the traffic lights were green as she drove to her job interview.”