Ominous

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More than 100 Nigerian schoolgirls were taken from their school in February by the Boko Haram extremist group.

OMINOUS

one month later, the fighter group drove into the town of Dapchi and returned most of the girls to the center of the town.

the group left with an ominous warning to never put girls in school again.

The girls’ families celebrated their release.

Ominous is an adjective that describes the feeling that something bad or terrible is going to happen.

To give an ominous warning is to threaten someone.