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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 of 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: The German word, meaning "noisy ghost"-a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder

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


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 of 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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