n. 25B6; verb the drought spelled disaster for them : SIGNAL, signify, mean, amount to, add up to, constitute; portend, augur, herald, bode, promise; involve; poetic/literary betoken, foretoken, forebode.
25A0; spell something out EXPLAIN, make clear, make plain, elucidate, clarify; specify, itemize, detail, enumerate, list, expound, particularize, catalogue.