Oracle

A claim, clear or obscure, often given orally, but sometimes via tracings of coal dust, ramifications of coral, leachings of acorn and taro, and so on, of things real or imaginary that shall come to pass, enabling, by any and all means, me and U Readers to get out of this predicament, this eleven-letter word for a cement-soled prediction portended by the mish-mash of adjectives and adverbs adhering like fly scat to these palm-sized rectangles of paper people keep handing me at Subborainizy or Barbès-Rochechouart, but, strangely, no where else.