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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:
| Apparition | a feeling of anticipation or anxiety over a future event |
| Poltergeist | a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people |
| Clairvoyance | a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration |
| Crystal Ball | a spelling board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions |
| Eerie | beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Medium | any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling |
| Transmigration | a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom |
| Psychic | so mysterious, strange or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| Ouija Board | the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses |
| Exorcist | a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living |
| Premonition | a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers |
| Paranormal | to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another |
| Tarot Card | capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy |
| Vampire | German word, meaning "noisy ghost"-a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder |
Solution
| Apparition | a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom |
| Poltergeist | German word, meaning ‘‘noisy ghost”-a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder |
| Clairvoyance | the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses |
| Crystal Ball | a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers |
| Eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Medium | a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living |
| Transmigration | to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another |
| Psychic | capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy |
| Ouija Board | a spelling board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions |
| Exorcist | a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration |
| Premonition | a feeling of anticipation or anxiety over a future event |
| Paranormal | beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Tarot Card | any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling |
| Vampire | a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people |
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