prognosticate vs indicate

prognosticate and indicate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prognosticate	No	No	Yes	No
indicate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, indicate is a hypernym of prognosticate; that is, indicate is a word with a broader meaning than prognosticate:

Other hypernyms of prognosticate include bespeak, betoken, point, signal.

prognosticate (verb)	indicate (verb)
make a prediction about; tell in advance	to state or express briefly
indicate, as with a sign or an omen	be a signal for or a symptom of
	give evidence of
	indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
	suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine