Given below is a list of words related to ghosts and ghost stories with their jumbled up meanings against them. Match the words/expressions with their correct meanings: A. Apparition → (i) a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event....
Given below is a list of words related to ghosts and ghost stories with their jumbled up meanings against them. Match the words/expressions with their correct meanings:
A. Apparition → (i) a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event.
B. Poltergeist → (ii) a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people
C. Clairvoyance → (iii) a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration
D. Crystal Ball → (iv) a spelling-board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions.
E. Eerie → (v) beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation
F. Medium → (vi) any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling
G. Transmigration → (vii) a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom
H. Psychic → (viii) so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine
i. Ouija Board → (ix) the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses
J. Exorcist → (x) a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living
K. Premonition → (xi) a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers
L. Paranormal → (xii) to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another
M. Tarot Card → (xiii) capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy
N. Vampire → (xiv) German word, meaning ‘‘noisy ghost” a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder
A. (vii)
B. (xiv)
C. (ix)
D. (xi)
E. (viii)
F. (x)
G. (xii)
H. (xii)
I. (iv)
J. (iii)
K. (i)
L. (v)
M. (vi)
N. (ii)
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