Read the paragraph from the section "It was a newspaper's idea." The first official Groundhog Day celebration in the U.S. took place February 2, 1887, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. It was the brainchild of local newspaper editor Clymer Freas. He convinced a group of businessmen and groundhog hunters — known as the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club — to support his idea. The men trekked to a site called Gobbler’s Knob, where the inaugural groundhog became the bearer of bad news; he saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of wintery weather. Which of the following words or phrases from the paragraph give context clues to the meaning of the word "inaugural"?