goracle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Al Gore (born 1948), the 45th vice president of the United States (1993–2001), especially when viewed as a prophet of environmental catastrophe.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Will he use his green moment on the red carpet in black tie to snag blue states and win the White House? ¶ Only the Goracle knows the answer."
- "The inconvenient truth that Al Gore laid out in his film and book already falls short of reality. When first dropped, his bombshell was a muffled rumble. […] But as the message sank in and momentum built, the Goracle got our attention."
- "True believers in catastrophic man-made climate change have been waiting for Al Gore to lead them through the Valley of Climategate. This week, The Goracle spoke."
- "The film thus takes environmental issues out of the province of the expert and the elite and gives us an environmentalist hero who is more relatable than the so-called Goracle of An Inconvenient Truth, or, to take a fictional example, the paleoclimatologist of The Day after Tomorrow."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Goracle (canonical)