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foreshock

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted cefhkoorsStarts with FEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a tremor preceding an earthquake

Word origin

From fore- + shock.

Used in a sentence

  • The FY 1981 increases in defense — something of a "foreshock" to the rapid rise in defense spending over the next several years — were prompted by the fall of the Shah in Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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