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sat vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| clairvoyant | One who perceives far more than the normal five senses would explain; a seer' extraordinary perceptive ; Clairvoyace |
| Chimera | a Greek mythic being with a lion's head, goats body, and a serpents tail. Chimerical, fanciful, imaginary, improbable, foolish |
| eccentric | decidedly odd or unusual; aberrational, an od person. eccentricities, oddities, aberrations |
| karma | your life force that determines your fate or destiny in the next life (Hinduism Buddhism) |
| enigma | a riddle hard to puzzle out; conundrum; mystery |
| vicarious | felt or experienced secondhand, through someone else or through another medium |
| hypothetical | based on a hypothesis (a logical theory) rather than reality; conjectural |
| cryptic | obscure; intentionally mysterious |
| esoteric | of knowledge belonging to initiated people |
| oblivious | totally unaware |
| utopia | a place where everything about life is perfect |
| elusive | apt to evade pursuit or definition (as "an elusive thought") ; hard to pin down, identify, elude |
| ced/cess/cede | to go, yield |
| precedent | any model for that which follows; antecedent |
| intercede | to come between disputing parties; mediate |
| chron | time |
| anachronism | a thing out of place in time |
| chronic | habitual, repetitive, long-lasting, frequent |