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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--clairvoyance This week's theme: words related to forecasting and divination. clairvoyance (klar-VOI-uhns) noun 1. The power of seeing things removed in time or space. 2. Intuitive insight into things. [From French clairvoyance, from clair (clear) + voyant (seeing), present participle of voir (to see).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "South Africa's national lottery is claiming an unlikely victim: vultures. Local people -- convinced these birds' superb eyesight gives them the gift to see the future -- are eating vulture meat to acquire the power of clairvoyance." Robin McKie; Vulture Numbers Are Cut to the Bone; The Observer (London, UK); Jul 16, 2006. X-Bonus I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. -Cesar Chavez, farm worker and activist (1927-1993)

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